| | Ecumenical Dictionary entry on Interfaith Dialogue |
 | | Thus, although the Tambaram report leaned heavily towards Kraemer’s views, it acknowledged that “Christians are not agreed” on the revelatory character of other religious traditions and identified this as “a matter urgently demanding thought and united study” within the ecumenical movement. |
 | | A WCC conference in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 1967, proved to be a landmark both as the beginning of serious interest in interfaith dialogue as such in the WCC, and as the first involvement in the ecumenical discussion of the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians. |
 | | Fears were expressed that dialogue would lead to the kind of syncretism* against which the 1928 Jerusalem meeting warned, or that it would compromise faith in the uniqueness and finality of the revelation in Christ, or that it would threaten mission seen as fundamental to the being of the church itself. |
| wcc-coe.org /wcc/what/interreligious/diction.html (3590 words) |