Cornelia Dockter
Dr. Cornelia Dockter studied Catholic theology and Spanish at the University of Cologne from 2006 to 2012 and finished her studies in July 2012 with the state examination. Since December 2012, she has been working on her doctorate in Catholic theology at the University of Paderborn with Prof. Dr. Klaus von Stosch and has been working as a research assistant there. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Chair for Systematic Theology with a focus on social challenges at the new “Centre for Comparative Theology and Social Issues” (CTSI) at the University of Bonn.
Dr. Cornelia Dockter was awarded the Friedrich Spee Prize 2020 for her thesis “Word in the Spirit. On the meaning of Jesus Christ in Christianity and Islam”. In it she compares the concepts of Logos and Christological Spirit with the Qur’anic categories of the Word and Spirit of God.
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Comparative Studies
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The Foundations of Arabic Grammatical Theory
Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor Ramzi Baalbaki, holder of the Chair of Arabic...
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Revival and Dynamics of Islamic Studies in Europe
- Michel Younès
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Cédric Baylocq
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
- Michele Brignone
- Haoues Seniguer
“In a troubled international context where Islam is sometimes defined as an ideological marker of many conflicts, academic research drawing on history, sociology, and political science has mu...
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For a dialogical theological fraternity: a rereading of the Document on Human Fraternity in light of the earliest Arabic theological writings
- Romain Louge
From the 8th century onwards, the first theological writings were composed in Arabic, either in Christian communities or in Muslim communities. This communication aims, through the study of these e...
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In search of a comparative Christian social thought. A methodological proposal
- Gonzalo Villagrán
The article "In search of a comparative Christian social thought" aims to propose a methodology for developing a comparative Christian social thought. To do this, it explores two sources of inspira...
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What does the reformation of religion mean?
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious re...
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Can Christians Learn from Qur’anic Christology? Leo Lefebure’s Theology of Judaism and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
Published in Publié dans Christian Perspectives on Transforming Interreligious Encounter “Christian Perspectives on Transforming Interreligious Encounter” underscores the urgency of int...
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Jesus in Recent Qur’an Translations | The Jesus of the Qur’an vs. the Jesus of the New Testament
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
In this video, Gabriel Said Reynolds discusses the presentation of Jesus in the Qur'an and how it is interpreted and rendered in English by recent translations of the Qur'an. I show that recent tra...
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From the Declaration “Nostra Aetate” to the Document of Abu Dhabi: Reexamining a Historical and Theological Trajectory in the Catholic Approach to Islamic-Christian Dialogue
- Jean-Jacques Pérennès
Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue, from the Nost...