The new interfaith theologians

clipped from newsweek.washingtonpost.com The conference we were gathered for, "Educating Jewish, Christian & Muslim Leaders for Service in a Multi-Religious World: The American Seminary Context,", felt like it might mark an important moment for the interfaith movement in its own right. It helped our students explore what particularly Christian responses could be to religious diversity and also helped them to press at the questions they felt hadn't been answered. Professor Knitter smiled. "These young people - they're writing the new theologies. They're the new theologians." May it be so: that the young people on the forefront of the interfaith movement today know themselves as the new theologians - and the academics, preachers and teachers - of faith in a diverse world. And may they know the rich legacy of work that comes before them.

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