Gregory Walter is Harold H. Ditmanson Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Taking Responsibility for Interreligious Engagement in Prayer
August/September 2023: The Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue (Volume 23 Issue 4)
[1] Interreligious engagement belongs to the same set of activities undertaken by an assembly as gathering offerings for food-shelves, or pleading for the cleaning up of highways. These activities are often the same thing because a somewhat ordinary kind of interreligious engagement takes place in the interaction of many peoples to redress problems they share. […]
Recognizing the Other in Liturgical Acts: Religious Pluralism and Eucharist
September 2010: Liturgical Ethics (Volume 10 Issue 9)
[1] A major difficulty facing contemporary life is the misrecognition of persons. This is the social pathology whereby we can improperly recognize the religious other and thereby do violence to another.1 Misrecognition denotes a variety of processes. In general, it marks the way that a person can ignore another, treat a person as a thing […]