Christian self-understanding amid many religions

Relations with people of other faiths impact Christian self-understanding, mission and witness as well as Christians' understanding of other religions.

This project invites the WCC constituency to consider how inter-religious dialogue challenges theology and Christian self-understanding.

It compares findings in Jewish-Christian dialogue with how Christian theology understands the nature and purpose of the church and, through consultations and the Internet, tries to create space for these findings in Christian theology.

In dialogue with people of different faiths, it considers understandings of conversion with a view to producing a code of conduct on religious conversions.

And it studies Christian self-understanding in a religiously plural world.

The project works with the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, the International Council of Christians and Jews, the Bernardin Center at the Catholic Theological Union (USA), the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at the Muhlenberg College (USA), and the Centre for Christian-Jewish Understanding (UK), among other speciliazed institutions, as well as with the WCC Faith and Order Commission, the Roman-Catholic Church, the WCC constituency and Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians.