Giampaolo Burcheri
Master's degree at ISSRM
IRC Teacher
Student at @istitutoretelugano
Member of @interfedi.como
Location Italy
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Thank you @BeatriceGranaroli, I'm glad that there is someone else who agrees with this thought and I really like your words. I think and hope that one of the main targets of interreligious dialogue is to extend the concept of love into ahimsa towards every living beings. This would mean, in my opinion, building a true future of peace and justice.
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We have so much to learn by this wonderful religion. In particular for what concern the value of plurality. No religion can hold the truth because truth is too big to be possessed by only one faith. Hinduism knows that and recognises how much pluralism and dialogue are worth.
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There is no peace without not harming any living beings. We must think about this truth and revolutionize our relationship with animals. Man dominate animal's kingdom and nature with violence, but as humans we can go beyond this violent domination.
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Justice, harmony, freedom and ahimsa as the components of the true peace: shantih. I found this speech so moving! That's why I think this idea of peace can inspire dialogue but also politics in the western society.
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An interesting article about the difference between the faith daily lived by believers and theologians of the same religion. I think this happens also in other religions like Christianity. Often Christian theology is not appreciated by believers, but, in my opinion, pratictioners need theology so much to understand what they believe in.
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Maybe "ahimsa" concept of non-violence could be observed in many other religions. In fact, I think the most important target of interreligious dialogue is letting different faiths build peace together. But it's necessary to highlight that ahimsa is, in a certain sense, wider than the idea of love of that belongs to other religions. Ahimsa indeed means...
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This week was maybe one of my favorite ones. I want to deepen the knowledge of the amazing religion of Buddhism and this lesson was an useful opportunity to do it. The comparison between this faith and Christianity was so interesting and helpful to better understand the religion I belong and the one I'd really like to discover more. Thanks for this chance!
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Yes, it's so difficult to understand Buddhism in the Western perspective because we are too immersed in Greek philosophy and Christian thinking. But we need to deepen Buddhism for many reasons. One of those it's to better know our own religion. In fact, I think that Muller's words are perfect: "He who knows one religion, knows none". The same idea of De Lubac....
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I think that Christianity, in the past, due to its litteralism, had troubles to be conciliated with science. Faith, especially in certains forms of Christianity, is against scientific method. But now, conciliation between spirituality and science it's no more impossible. Actually, I believe that religions can be developed by science and by its method of...
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I'm personally really thankful to Buddhism, especially for the concept of self-power. That's why I need to deepen this wonderful religion. One of the many questions I'd like to make is: "How could the concept of emptiness let human to be saved from the suffering?". In fact, in the western way of thinking, this idea is quite sad.
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"I want to peck from the inside. Would you please tap from the outside?" is a beautiful Zen phrase. It describes well what Buddhism thinks about salvation, and Christianity has some common element with this way of view. But my experience of Christianity was more similar to an idea of salvation that only waits passively for an act from the outside. Maybe many...
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Professor Pallavicini explained many interesting matters. Cooperation between different religions to build a future of peace in the mutual understanding is one of them. But there is also collaboration between faith and society as one could be the advisor of the other that impressed me. Finally I really appreciated the idea of updating of the languanges that...
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As I wrote in another post, I think the main reason that forces people to fight each other and makes cooperation harder is the "strong" idea of truth. Believing that one faith or one philosophy or one ideology owns the only truth is a violent idea. I think, in fact, that truth, just because it's truth, cannot be possessed by only one faith. Truth is too big to...
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I really appreciate the meanings of interreligious dialogue that imam Pallavicini shares with us. If I have to choose tre keywords that could be associated to this theme, I'd say "peace", because quest for peace is a common element betweens religions; "understanding", because mutual understanding is the nature of dialogue; "self-understanding" because this...
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It's impossible not to think about the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt. In my city, in the northem of Italy, there is an interreligious group which makes possible to have this kind of experience.
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@NellVeldhuis Thank you for your beautiful words!
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In my opinion, the most interesting part of this lesson about Christianity was Roux's speech about the three behaviours that are against a good mutual dialogue. But I also love Henry De Lubac's quote: the best way to understand deeper your own religion is knowing other ones. This is a part of what interreligious dialogue means!
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I think it's hard for Catholic Church to take part in the interreligious dialogue if it will continue to claim to be at the center of the concentric circles which pope Paul VI talks about.
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I think that a certain idea of truth is connected to violence. I refer to the idea that truth is only one and can be totally held by someone. Religions often prefer this perspective, falling in the violent temptation of imposing that truth they are convinced to have. And allowing people in history to use it for personal, political or economic interests....
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@DorothyGunn Dear Dorothy, we think different about what physical universe could tell to humanity about the Creator. In fact, it's true that nature is amazing and wonderful, but is also the place of pain, illness, death... So I love Gianni Vattimo's thought about the meaning of the idea of creation: the god of Christianity is better than the idea of the god we...
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@JohnO'Donoghue I agree with you. In fact, if Christianity thinks that "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus", it means that Christianity claims to possess the only truth like God is its private property. God is bigger than churches and dogma, so humanity can experience God "extra Ecclesiam". Maybe interreligious dialogue is the place where these different experiences...
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Discovering the thoughts of the four Jewish philosophers that have been proposed in this lesson and the professor Meir's innovative concept of trans-difference gave me new useful means to create interreligious dialogue experiences with my students.
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Professor Meir's concept of trans-difference is a brilliant way to communicate the spirit of interreligious dialogue and to start an autentic dialogic theology. Trans-difference as a common belonging, a dynamic identity, is the beginning not only for interreligious dialogue, but maybe also for human brotherhood.
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I think believers of my religion, Christianity, could be more able to dialogue with the believers of other religions or faiths in this way: understanding that if truth can be possessed by only one religion, then it can be truth. That's why I really appreciated Heschel point of view about religion: God is greater than religion, and no religion is an island....
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What does interreligious dialogue mean to me? I think faith can't exist without spiritual quest, because faith doesn't mean possessing the truth, but looking for it. The best way to do it is dialogue. So this is what interreligious dialogue means to me: spiritual quest, faith.
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Pain is a religious experience, maybe the deepest one. So it's true what professor Fabris says about the common element between religions: the attempt to give an answer for the everlasting question "Why there is pain and evil?". This thought about pain reminds me the professor Angelini's idea of "lone consciousness": we are completely alone in front of pain...
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Losing the dimension of hope and future as a fundamentalism's characteristic: such an interesting point of view!
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Good morning to my fellows, to the teachers and to the organisers of this project. Let me introduce myself: my name is Giampaolo Burcheri, I'm from Como, a city in the north of Italy, I work as an IRC teacher, I studied at ISSR in Milan and I recently signed up at Master of Arts in Science, philosophy and theology of religions at Theological Faculty of Lugano....
