Approximation of Abrahamic religions: necessity, challenges and harms

Authors

1 Faculty member of the Imam Khomeini Institute for Research and Education (Depart man of Religion)

2 Ph. D. student of Imam Khomeini Educational Research Institute - Qom - Iran

Abstract

چکیده / English


Summary
After the historical course of the comparative discussions of religions and sects, in the contemporary period, the discussion of the approximation of the Abrahamic religions has found a special place. Although some still speak of the impossibility, desirability, and uselessness of rapprochement between religions, but the crises of human progress and the capacity of divine religions to develop and guide humanity have made the need for rapprochement even more apparent. Approximation between the Abrahamic religions to reach a conclusion will require conscious interaction with the challenges and wise pathology of this field. Knowing the basics of approximation, familiarity with the principles and foundations, understanding the system of religious approximation and the place of reform and revival in religion, will lead the approximation between religions to the interactionism and perfectionism of the followers of divine religions. This research has strengthened the views on the necessity of approximation by descriptive-analytical method and library tools by categorizing and examining the approaches in the field of approximation of Abrahamic religions and Intra-religious and extra-religious pathology in this field.

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