2011-12-09 12:30:25

What we can learn from the way Muslims pray ...


Jesuit Professor Father Felix Körner is a scholar, his expertise, Islam. Something he has first hand experience of, grounded in the six years spent living in a Muslim nation, Turkey.

There he spent much of his time in dialogue with Muslim theologians in an effort: to build bridges between Christians and Muslims, to work towards reconciliation and improve mutual understanding.

So today when Professor Kőrner teaches “Theology of Religions”, at the Faculty of Theology of the Jesuit run Pontifical Gregorian University here in Rome, he continues to draw inspiration from this personal experience in inter-religious dialogue. While clearly placing Christian and Catholic identity at the heart of his teaching he also encourages students to grow in the awareness that there is to learn from other religions as well.

Veronica Scarisbrick went round to call on him and asked him what we as Christians can learn from the way Muslims pray...

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