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A common what?: the limits of reconciliation

by Sarah Ruden

On the Christian-Muslim "A Common Word Between Us and You" at Yale.

I’m a visiting scholar at Yale Divinity School, not a student, and as a Quaker I can’t be ordained, so I delete most of the institutional email notices unread. Vestments and books on preaching and counseling can change hands at astonishingly low prices, the Reverend Mister Manners can strike again and again with sessions to prepare for interviews with parishes, and the Thou Shalt Kill volleyball team can massacre its rivals from other Yale professional schools, all without concerning me. But I eagerly read the announcement that came in July of this year about the first conference to follow from the document called “A Common Word Between Us and You.” That public expression by Muslim leaders of their solidarity with Christians had received a warm response from Western churches and universities, and now the conference was warmly entitled “Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed: Implications for Christians and Muslims.” ...

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Sarah Ruden's translation of The Aeneid was published by Yale University Press earlier this year.


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 27 November 2008, on page 10

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