Divine Hospitality Arabic Version
Overview
Daou, Fadi and Tabbara, Nayla: Divine Hospitality, Christian and Muslim theologies of the other (Arabic). Lebanon, Saint Paul Publications/Adyan, 2011, 247 p.
فادي ضو ونايلا طبارة: الرحابة الإلهيّة: لاهوت الآخر في المسيحيّة والإسلام. لبنان، المكتبة البولسية/أديان، 2011
This book, in Arabic language, presents to readers, Christians, Muslims and others, a clear presentation of the question of religious diversity from a faith-based perspective. In other words, it tries to clarify what Christian faith on the one hand and Muslim faith on the other, say about religious otherness and about the relation between God and a believer from a different religion.
The Book is also available in French : L’Hospitalité divine: L’autre dans le dialogue des théologies chrétienne et musulmane. Lit Verlag. 2014.
Abstract & Findings
Important Findings
This book is not a discourse for the other, with diluted truths to achieve empathy and mutual acceptance, in as much as it is a theological construct targeted first of all at the believer, putting him/her vis-a-vis his/her own belief.. The challenge presented by this book to the believer is to accept to move forward towards the other, not based on a static religious identity used as a shield but based on a conviction that the spiritual message carried by the other may not be estranged from God’s plan.
The Authors

Professor of science of religions and Islamic studies.
Director of the Institute of Citizenship and Diversity Management.

Professor of Interreligious dialogue and Geopolitics of religion; Chairperson and CEO of Adyan foundation
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