Jad Moufarrej
Jad Moufarrej is a subdeacon of the Maronite Church and a PhD candidate in comparative theology at the Catholic University of Lyon. A researcher in Muslim-Christian studies, his work focuses on the Christian theology of religions and Shia Islam. He also serves as a mission coordinator at the Centre d’Études des Cultures et des Religions (CECR) within the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Lyon.
His doctoral thesis, supervised by Michel Younès, is entitled “La mort rédemptrice en dialogue”, a comparative Christian-Muslim theological study of redemptive death in the thought of Jürgen Moltmann and Murtaḍā Muṭahharī.
He holds bachelor’s degrees in theology from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik and in philosophy from the Lebanese University, as well as master’s degrees in Muslim-Christian relations from Saint Joseph University in Beirut and in dogmatic and comparative theology from the Catholic University of Lyon.
He has worked in the field of interreligious dialogue, notably with the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon, and acts as a consultant for various organisations on projects related to interreligious and intercultural issues, as well as freedom of religion, conscience, and expression from a religious perspective.
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov (Blo...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title "Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit" in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...
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Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections
- David Marshall
Abstract Published as "Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections" in a special issue of The Muslim World marking the 50th anniversary of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center (Hartford), th...
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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts
- Guy-Raymond Sarkis
Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberati...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...