Christian de Cherg, prior of the Cistercian community at Tibhirine, Algeria, was assassinated with six of his fellow monks in 1996. De Cherg saw his monastic vocation as a call to be a person of prayer among persons who pray, that is, among the Muslim friends and neighbours with whom he and his brothers shared daily life. De Chergs writings bear witness to an original thinker who insists on the value of interreligious dialogue for a more intelligent grasp of ones own faith. Christian Salenson shows us the personal, ...
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Christian de Cherg, prior of the Cistercian community at Tibhirine, Algeria, was assassinated with six of his fellow monks in 1996. De Cherg saw his monastic vocation as a call to be a person of prayer among persons who pray, that is, among the Muslim friends and neighbours with whom he and his brothers shared daily life. De Chergs writings bear witness to an original thinker who insists on the value of interreligious dialogue for a more intelligent grasp of ones own faith. Christian Salenson shows us the personal, ecclesial, and theological foundations of de Chergs vocation and the originality of his life and thought. He shows how the experience of a small monastery lost in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria contributes importantly to todays theological debates.
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