Publications

Strangers or Co-Pilgrims? The Impact of Interfaith Dialogue on Christian Faith and Practice (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017)

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In 2017 the Fortress Press decided to bring out about 30 articles written by Wesley Ariarajah in two volumes. First of these volumes, Strangers or Co-Pilgrims? - Impact of Interfaith Dialogue on Christian Faith and Practice carries 15 articles grouped under six heading:
i. Theology and Practice of interfaith Dialogue,
ii Dialogue and Scriptures,
iii Dialogue and Theology,
vi Dialogue and Mission,
v. Dialogue and Religions (dealing with Christian dialogue with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists)
vi. Three relevant issues in Interfaith Relations (Conversion and Religious Freedom, Religion and Violence, Religion and Reconciliation).

A comprehensive volume on the most important dimensions of interfaith relations and dialogue.

Moving Beyond the Impasse: Reorienting Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018)

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This second collection of 16 articles is grouped under four titles:
i. Issues in Interfaith Dialogue,
ii. Education and Dialogue,
iii. Ecumenism and Dialogue,
iv. Dialogue and Ecumenism in Asia –

A Peek into History, which includes a discussion of the contribution of the Asian participants at the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference.

Your God, My God, Our God – Rethinking Christian Theology for Religious Plurality (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2012)

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A bold attempt to rethink the foundational teachings of Christian Theology- on God, Sin, The significance of Jesus Christ, Salvation, and Mission for a religiously plural word. culminating in five theses on rethinking Christian Theology.

Axis of Peace: Christian Faith in Times of Violence and War (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2005)

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Written in response to the US war in Iraq, this volume carries a comprehensive discussion on the history of the Christian approach to war and violence. Includes the positions taken within the ecumenical movement on these issues.

Not Without My Neighbour –Issues in Interreligious Relations (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1999)

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This volume, widely used in courses on Interfaith Relations, deals with concrete issues in interfaith relations such as:

  • Dialogue and Conflict (Are there limits to dialogue?)

  • Dialogue and Spirituality (Can we pray together?)

  • Women and Dialogue (Is dialogue compromised on the question of women?)

  • Dialogue and Socio-Political Issues (Does dialogue lacks credibility?)

  • Interreligious Marriage (A problem or a Promise?)

  • Dialogue and Mission (Can the tension be resolved?).

Did I Betray the Gospel? - Letters of Paul and the Place of Women, (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1996)

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Did St. Paul, perhaps the most consequential interpreter of the Christian Gospel, betray the interest of women in his letters in the New Testament? This volume takes an innovative stand of putting Paul into the contemporary context and requests him to write four new letters, explaining his stand on women in his letters in the New Testament and responding to some of the contemporary issues related to women.

Translated into Swedish, Czech, Chinese, and Indonesian.

Hindus and Christians: A Century of Protestant Ecumenical Thought, (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1991)

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A comprehensive study of Hindu-Christian relations in the ecumenical movement. Beginning with the discussions on the approach to other religions in the early World Missionary Conferences, it also gives the history of the emergence of Interreligious Dialogue within the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. Also included are the developments that led to the contemporary debates in the Theology of Religions.

The Bible and People of Other Faiths, (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1985)

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This short volume takes on the difficult question of whether interfaith relations and dialogue are consistent with the teachings in the Bible. Since this was one of the first volumes to tackle this divisive issue, it has been translated into 12 languages by those who found it useful in approaching this matter. Although written in 1985, it is still widely used.

Translated into: German, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Arabic, Swahili, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Indonesian, Korean, and Japanese.

Books published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, available only from the publisher.

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Power, Politics and Plurality, Essays by S: Wesley Ariarajah, Marshal Fernando Editor (Colombo: Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, 2016) :

A collection of articles on interfaith dialogue and ecumenism.

We Live by His Gifts – D. T. Niles: Preacher, Teacher and Ecumenist- A Personal Account.

A biography of D. T. Niles, who is celebrated within the worldwide ecumenical community as a leading ecumenist and missiologist. Written to mark his 100th birth anniversary. (Colombo: Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, 2010).

Theology Beyond Neutrality – Essays to Honour Wesley Ariarajah, Edited by Marshall Fernando and Robert Crusz (Colombo, Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, 2011).

This volume carries 25 scholarly articles written by colleagues and friends of Wesley Ariarajah to honour him on his 70th birthday.