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THE LIVING STONES of the HOLY LAND TRUST ______Registered Charity No — THE LIVING STONES OF THE HOLY LAND TRUST _________________________________________________ Registered Charity No. 1081204 'An ecumenical trust seeking to promote contacts between Christian Communities in Britain and those in the Holy Land and neighbouring countries.’ You are permitted to redistribute or reproduce all or part of the contents of the Yearbook in any form as long as it is for personal or academic purposes and non-commercial use only and that you acknowledge and cite appropriately the source of the material. You are not permitted to distribute or commercially exploit the content without the written permission of the copyright owner, nor are you permitted to transmit or store the content on any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system. The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of the contents in its publications. However, the opinions and views expressed in its publications are those of the contributors and are not necessarily those of The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook and its content are copyright of © The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. All rights reserved. [email protected] 1 Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2019 2 Contributors Living StoneS Yearbook 2017-18 i Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2017-18 ii Contributors Living StoneS Yearbook 2017-18 Faith on Trial Attrition and Politics in the Middle East Living StoneS of the hoLY Land truSt Registered charity no. 1081204 iii Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2017-18 © Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust 2018 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Living Stones Yearbook 2017-18 First published 2018 by Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust (regd. Charity no. 1081204) www.livingstonesonline.org.uk ISbN 978 0 9552088 8 1 Managing Editor Leonard Harrow Assistant Editor alan ball Editors Mary Grey Duncan Macpherson anthony o’Mahony David Toorawa Produced by Melisende Uk Ltd Printed and bound in england by 4edge Ltd iv Contributors CoNTeNTS Editorial xi Contributors xiv an Exploration of issuEs surrounding AngliCan/JEwish rElations in thE uK in thE light of thE israEl/ palEstinE ConfliCt—Andrew Ashdown 1 JEsus thE JEw and JEsus thE palEstinian?—Duncan Macpherson 25 Christian-MusliM rElations: froM ConfliCt to dialoguE A CritiCal ACCount of prEsEnt and rECEnt CatholiC tEaChing on Christian-MusliM dialoguE— Duncan Macpherson 34 Ex TEnEbris Lux? a pastoral rEflECtion on soME issuEs around MiddlE EastErn Christianity in thE WEst— Robert Gibbons 51 thE rEvival of thE syrian orthodox Christians following thE first World War—Khalid S Dinno 71 paolo dall’oglio sJ. EastErn Christianity, MonastiCisM and thE CoMMunity of dEir Mar Musa: A Study in MusliM- Christian rElations in ModErn syria— Christopher Knollys 97 thE stratEgiEs for survival: syriaC orthodox Christians prior to and during thE syrian Civil war—Noriko Sato 124 an Exploration of thE philosophiCal ThEology of david burrEll in dialoguE with islaM, in ConvErsation with robErt Murray and ModErn papal thought on ECologiCal CrisEs—Patricia Morris 145 Mary in thE Qur’an and islaMiC Tradition— Ian Latham† 184 v Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2017-18 vi Contributors Living StoneS of the hoLY Land truSt ‘an ecumenical trust seeking to promote contacts between Christian communities in britain and those in the Holy Land and neighbouring countries.’ Our SPIRITUAL PATRONS include In the Middle East archbishop Suheil Dawani, anglican bishop in Jerusalem Patriarch Gregorios III, Melkite Patriarch (emeritus) of antioch Nora Carmi, Co-ordinator for kairos Palestine bishop Theodosius of Sebastia, Greek orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Patriarch Fuad Tual, Latin Patriarch (emeritus) in Jerusalem bishop Munib Younan, Lutheran bishop (emeritus)in Jerusalem Jean Zaru, religious Society of Friends (Quakers) co-founder of Sabeel Elsewhere Cardinal Vincent Nichols, roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster revd baroness richardson of Calow, Methodist Church in britain archbishop John Sentamu, anglican archbishop of York bishop Desmond Tutu, former anglican archbishop of Cape Town vii Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2017-18 CommuniCationS www.livingstonesonline.org.uk Communications with the Chair or Editor can be made through: [email protected] or [email protected] All enquiries regarding subscriptions to the Honorary Treasurer: [email protected] note It is appreciated that articles derive from authors in a range of disciplines and demonstrate a variety in approach. The spelling of some specialised terms, local place-names and proper names in particular may vary considerably according to the contributor and discipline. These variations, however, should cause no problems to readers. Submissions for inclusion in the Yearbook are welcome and papers for consideration should be sent to [email protected]. Notes for submission of papers and house style are available upon request from the editor. viii Contributors eDITorIaL This edition of the Living StonesYearbook is for 2017-8.This means of course that two years are combined into one.There have been several reasons for this; including and not least has been the constantly changing situation in the Middle east. Furthermore, various changes have and are anticipated in the structure and function of the Living Stones of the Holy Trust which have also been a distraction for the production of the Yearbook. another factor has been the patchy operation of the deliberations of the Theology Group which has been a regular source of material for the Yearbook. The usual venue for meetings of the group has been at Heythrop College in London, courtesy of the Centre for eastern Christianity under its director, anthony o’Mahony. However, we are now witness to the demise of Heythrop as a college within the University of London in which it has played an important part since 1971. Heythrop has in fact existed for over 400 years. It has had a vitally important role with a proud history of eminent scholars, making major contributions to philosophy and theology. For Living Stones the hard work and effort of anthony and the Centre for eastern Christianity has been an important source of inspiration, achievement and published material. It has also made an enormous contribution to an appreciation of the subject matter of eastern Christianity itself and has been instrumental in preparing and training students and scholars in the field. The general state of flux in the situation of our area of interest is as ever mirrored in the erosion of living stones communities and events in the lands of the bible. It seems every year we can look back ix Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2017-18 on more bad times for the region. 2017-18 are very significant times in this respect. The enduring and core problem of Israel/Palestine has seen, among other matters, few actions and policies to serve as a source of encouragement for the future. We should mention the US embassy move to Jerusalem, Israeli constitutional changes, the ongoing misery of Gaza, the weakness of the West bank situation and leadership, the US cancellation of payments to UNrWa, new Israeli settlements in the West bank, and linguistic neologisms so that any criticism of Israel is to be equated with anti-Semitism ... Iraq and the bleeding of Syria, and US neuroses about Iran and its arc of Shi‘a influence, the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran means the region is more dangerous than before. russia seems to be reasserting itself in an imperialist sense whilst the US has no clear plan as to what it wants to do, or whether it should even be involved. europe is ineffective. We will not even begin to consider ‘peripheral’ problems such as the Yemen, Qatar, bahrain, the role of Saudi arabia, kurdistan, Turkey, afghanistan ... It seems that the errors of over 200 years of imperial Western policies in the region are being re-presented and relived. and this is happening at a time, on the centenary of the First World War’s end, whose armistice treaties marked the beginning of an enduring phase of misery for the lands of the bible and especially its Christian communities. Where will the voice of those communities now be heard? Where is the platform to present the views of Living Stones? are we not all a little ashamed of what has come to pass? Christian communities, lay and clergy, see their world’s dissipating around them. and this is happening throughout the region. The damage is done and those who have fled will not return. even now some denominations have larger communities in, say the US, than in the lands of their origin. only an unshakeable faith can sustain those who remain. This issue opens with the completion of andrew ashdown’s analysis of the Church of england’s attitude of anglican/Jewish relations in the Uk in the light of the Israel/Palestine conflict. This is followed by Duncan Macpherson’s study of present and recent Catholic teaching on Christian-Muslim dialogue and then, by the same author, a revision of an earlier paper on ‘Jesus the Jew and Jesus the Palestinian?’ x Contributors robert Gibbons continues with ‘a Pastoral reflection on Some Issues around Middle eastern Christianity in the West’, an area into which he has a unique insight. khalid Dinno takes us firmly into a Living Stones community with his paper on ‘The revival of the Syrian orthodox Christians following The First World War’. Christopher knollys’ paper on Paolo Dall’oglio SJ and the Community of Deir Mar Musa is a reminder of the ongoing agony of that community and what continues to afflict so much of the region of our interest.
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