Kathodon,Christianity and Islam,issue 3 (1992), pp. 183.
The 3rd issue of the journal Kathodon looks at Islam itself and relations between Islamism and Christianity. There are a total of 16 articles printed, 13 of which address the main theme. At the beginning there is a brief introduction by N. Zacharopoulos.
The Metropolitan of Switzerland Damaskinos presents the history and part of the academic dialogue between Christians and Muslims in 1986-9 in cooperation with the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Champesi (Geneva) and the Royal Academy for Islamic Culture Research in Jordan.
M. M. Shabestari examines the common ideological principals of Christianity and Islamism from an Islamic point of view and analyses the issue of common duties of faithful of the two religions in the modern world.
M. M. A. Damad presents from the Islamic perspective the issues of intereligious cooperation, peace, religious and world brotherhood.
A. Argyriou develops briefly the background of the Islamic-Christian dialogue up to the beginning of the 20th century and claims a new phase and disposition in today’s dialogue.
G. Lemopoulos emphasises the dialogue with Islam and describes the framework for intereligious contacts within the Ecumenical Movement and the spirit of the meeting held by the WCC.
S. Agouridis refers to attempts in modern Islam for modernity, which is constrasted by conservative renewal movements, while also referring to problems encountered in the Islamic-Christian dialogue.
M. Conway presents his experience of Britain’s multicultural society and a way Christians could respond to the challenges with a new sense of Christian noviciate.
P. Antes examines the position of Islam in western Europe focusing on three main fronts: school systems, free exercise of religious worship and religion-state relationships.
M. Panagiotidis presents the most important representatives of Sufism and their basic positions within Islamic religion.
S. Mana, presents a treatise by the Dominican monk Georgios (15th cent.) about the expansion of Turks and Islam, aiming to offer useful insights for Islam in modern Europe.
A. Kariotoglou uses a straightforward approach to register attitudes of Greek people of letters on Islam, through their texts.
A. Alygizakis examines common musical paths in Christianity and Islam with reference to the tropic system of church sounds and Arab makams.
S. Giannoulos researches the relationship between Islamism and the Athenian Democracy and their coincidence in methods of thought and analysis.
Then follow three articles unconnected to the issue’s main topic.
Tarnanidis refers to the war in the former Yugoslavia and questions whether the war was a national and religious assault on the Serbs.
K. Haralambidis analyses the symbolic importance of colours in Byzantine art and aesthetics.
X. Papasotiropoulos refers to modern politics and ways it is expressed in modern theology.