04. November 2024

Rückblick: Christian-Muslim Political Theology Toward a Comparative Companion Christian-Muslim Political Theology Toward a Comparative Companion

Funded by the Gingko Foundation’s Werner Mark Linz Memorial Grant, Fatima Tofighi and Ulrich Schmiedel hosted a workshop on Christian-Muslim Political Theology at the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues at Bonn University in Germany from 14 to 15 October 2024. More than ten contributors from more than five countries grappled with classical texts about religion in politics, connecting Europe to the Middle East and the Middle East to Europe.

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Christian theologians presented “their” political key thinkers and “their” political key texts to Muslim theologians who then responded to what they had heard. Muslim theologians presented “their” political key thinkers and “their” political key texts to Christian theologians who then responded to what they had heard. And in the conversations, the possessive pronoun “their” began to make less and less sense: Christians learning form Muslim political thought and Muslims learning from Christian political thought led to a situation in which both Christians and Muslims could think about “our” key texts and “our” key thinkers together. This is also the idea behind a two-volume Comparative Companion to Christian-Muslim Political Theology that is meant to be the outcome of a number of workshops like this one.

 

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