Ecumenical Movement and Interreligious Dialogue

Abstract

For me, as a teacher in a theological faculty, the discussion about ecumenical movement and interfaith usually crosses roads with colleagues or students. There is no occasion in which these two are not placed under the same roof, overlaid or confused. That is why the sudden preoccupation to settle this topic as clear as I can so that it can stand for a groundwork when researching about this relationship. Their overlapping is probably the most common hindrance and at the same time indictment for the DIR (abbr., interreligious dialogue) movement of its “least-connoisseurs”, namely that DIR is a new figment of promoting ecumenical globalization. After I myself faced in classroom students with these assumptions, I thought it is appropriate to add this chapter and explain why DIR is nothing of what the ecumenical movement wanted to be. a r t i c l e i n f o © 2014 RCDST. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 28 March 2019 Received in revised form 1 May Accepted 10 June 2019 Available online 30 June 2019 doi: 10.18638/dialogo.2019.5.2.10