Muriel Pusterla
Teacher, PhD student in Religious Studies, scholar of Judaism.
"Libbì be-Mizraḥ" [my heart is in the East ; il mio cuore è a Oriente]
Location Italy
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Muriel Pusterla made a comment
Three keywords that I associate with the concept of interreligious dialogue: spiritual dimension, respect and development of humanity.
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I think these words are very important: "A faith which has not become inculturated is a faith which has not been fully received, which has not been completely thought through, which has not been faithfully lived". The inculturation of faith still poses considerable problems for theological reflection and pastoral action.
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Very interesting! It is a great contribution to building a dialogic and interreligious theology from a Jewish point of view. But that's not the point of view of many Jewish communities.
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Yes, variety of languages is also a reply to the destructive imperialist and dictatorial ambitions...
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Muriel Pusterla made a comment
Maybe they don't talk about truth merely in the cognitive sense (meaning), because truth also includes other dimensions of human (affect and act). Truth is an experience. In this sense Jesus was really a Jew!
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"Let us go down there and confuse their speech, so that no one understands what the other is saying" (Genesis 11:7). According to a meaningful interpretation, we can see variety of languages not as a punishment but as a blessing. By creating different languages, God created and sanctified religious pluralism.
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In my opinion interreligious dialogue is an exploration of respective religious practices and beliefs, directed at mutual growth and enrichment. Common goal is a deeper knowledge of God and the human being.
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"Unity can be brought about by building up and
fostering a true relationship between the self and others. Unity (...) is interaction and communion". Great! I agree! -
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Dialogue is speaking and listening, giving and receiving, for mutual understanding and enrichment.
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Does evil come from God? If God is the exclusive source of all, and is the essence of good, can there be evil in His work?
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Muriel Pusterla made a comment
Theological assertions, values, beliefs, texts, ritual practices, traditions, rules, socio-economic and cultural factors,... all this is religion. I believe that God is the God of History, so "the religion question" is inextricably woven into all dimensions of human experience. Can there be faith, spirituality without religion?
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I agree that in secularized societies the religious influence remain potent in spite of modern predictions that the idea of God would decline with the rise of secular democracies and advances in science, but the "return of religion" in Europe is a return of religious feeling or traditional religious practices? Perhaps new practices are needed? Religions change...
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Religions are collections of ideas, values, practices, and stories that are all embedded in cultures and not separable from them.
I often hear the term "religion" used as a synonym for doctrine, catechism. I think that It is helpful to continue thinking of religion according to the etymology of the term. For example, one of constituent of Jewish... -
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My name is Muriel. I'm from Milan, Italy. I’m a Religion teacher and PhD student in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology, Lugano, Switzerland. I work with Institute for Religious Sciences of Milan (ISSRM) as a tutor for the summer courses in Jerusalem. I'm a scholar of Judaism, but I always try to seize the opportunity to learn more about other...