What is dialogue? What are the goals of dialogue between laillis? Are they sttaimable? Are they compatible with Christian faith? This important book Addresses the issue of dialogue from a differant, even un que palaj-ktuve, 5 the relationships, in soulal and historical context, Derween faiths

ochnaad explores the sociological as well as the theorog car dimensions al Several ideological stances (often categorized as simply exclusivily or note sivity that have delined Christian altitudes toward other faiths He demon strates how these attitudes are present in different circumstance col citiainy that a theology of interfaith dialogue "must uinmately be grond wan ogy of the world Basedon his reading of Barin Lochinidad propios fathful agnosticiam-the refusal to make a prior valuationalepithes as the altitude most conducive to constructive interfaith relations

Exploring the notion of dialogue as a means to truth Lotrill then dis cusses Plato and Buber from the dialogical perspective anil suctienes the qusstico of whether a doctrine of revelation must be uneersalized in order to permit dialogue between faiths He concludes with an examiranon of the import of the dialogical imperative for Christian Theology