By HUỆ KHẢI (Dũ Lan LÊ ANH DŨNG)
RELIGION Publishing House (Hanoi 2015)
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CONTENTS
I. INTERFAITH DIALOGUES
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
II. INTERFAITH DIALOGUES
IN THE VIETNAMESE HISTORY
III. THINKING ABOUT
INTERFAITH DIALOGUES IN THE CONDITIONS OF OUR PRESENT SOCIETY
IV. IN LIEU OF A
CONCLUSION
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FOREWORD
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (Turkish author and Muslim, born in
1941) once said, “I believe that
interfaith dialogue is a must today…” Bishop John Shelby Spong (American
theologian, born in 1931) asserted, “The
future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. (...) We cannot say we have
the only truth.”
Significant statements on the global importance of interfaith
dialogues have been multiplying. This fact shows that interfaith dialogues
should not be neglected by contemporary humans, especially for those following
Caodaism, a tolerant religion entirely appropriate for any dialogue amongst faiths.
That was why I gladly attended the workshop on Interfaith Dialogues in New Conditions, held
by Institute for Religious Studies (a member of Vietnam Academy of Social
Sciences) on Friday morning 25
September 2015, at 27 Trần Xuân
Soạn street
After my writing contributed to the said workshop had been
printed in Công Giáo Và Dân Tộc /
Catholicism and Nation, a monthly magazine (issue No. 249, September 2015, pp. 109-128), I altered a few
words and expressions thereof and put it into English. I sincerely appreciate
my respectable teaching colleague Tú Đoàn, who read my translation and offered
lots of helpful remarks.
I also would like to express
my deep thanks to our noble and generous donors, who always strongly,
unceasingly, and enthusiastically support our Programme of Joining Hands for
Free Caodai Publications. As an obvious result, thousands of my present booklet
can be placed in your hands.
With heart and soul, we pray to God for blessings upon our
benefactors, their ancestors and relatives as well.
Namo Caodai the Immortal
Mahabodhisattva Mahasattva.
October 2015
HUỆ KHẢI
