{"id":4778,"date":"2006-11-06T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/the-pope-and-islam.html"},"modified":"2006-11-06T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T10:40:41","slug":"the-pope-and-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/the-pope-and-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen spoke in the Dallas area this weekend – anyone see him? <\/a>His talk at the University of Dallas was on Benedict and Islam:<\/p>\n

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The heart of my argument in that lecture is that Pope Benedict XVI may well be the last, best hope for serious dialogue between the West and the Islamic world, because he is the lone figure of global standing in the West with the spiritual and theological credentials to address Muslims from within their own thought world. Hence when Benedict challenges Muslims to embrace reason and to respect religious freedom, he does so from within a shared space of commitment to religious truth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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