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...