Course Description
This course will provide resources for helping pastors and lay people to engage in faithful and fruitful interfaith relationships for the love of God and neighbor. We will meet four times during the semester in Severance 202 or by ZOOM. Discussion will focus around two texts, in which we will address issues of interfaith communication, learn how to approach neighbors who understand faith differently through seeking common ground, and encourage one another to build friendships with those who also are seeking to know and honor God.
Course Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to:
1. Identify the biblical foundations for
participation in interfaith relationships.
2. Identify avenues of Christian
hospitality for building interfaith friendships.
3. Evaluate the elements of faithful and
fruitful witness to the Gospel among those of other faiths.
Required Texts
Patel, Eboo, Sacred
Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Larson, Marion and Sara Shady, From
Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World
- Teacher: Bonnie Sue Lewis