Archbishop: Move beyond “bland statements of anaemic intent” in Interfaith dialogue

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Vivian Wineman, The Chief Rabbi, Archbishop Justin Welby and Gillian Merron (Photo credit: John Rifkin)

May 6, 2015

The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of the need to move beyond interfaith dialogue characterised by “bland statements of anaemic intent” to urgently address sources of tension – warning that failing to do so would be “disingenuous and ultimately dishonest”.

Justin Welby impassioned plea came during a speech at the Board of Deputies annual dinner in which he reflected on a year blighted by “religiously-sponsored violence” across the globe.

“Within the Christian community we need to stand against our own tendency, when exhibited over many centuries, to violence; violence against each other and above all violence against Jewish communities in horrendous and horrible ways going back well over a millennia,” he told hundreds of guests at the representative body’s annual dinner in central London.

“We need to stop that both with security but also with ideology that subverts the arguments of the radicals. If we don’t do that we leave all the good arguments in the hands of the radicals.”

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