Roman Siebenrock
Born in 1957 in Germany, Roman Anton Siebenrock is a retired professor (Professor i.R.) of dogmatic theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck (Austria), where he taught from 2006 until his retirement in 2022 and directed the Institute for Systematic Theology (2017-2022).
He studied Catholic theology, philosophy and adult education at the universities of Innsbruck and Munich (1977-1984), completed his doctorate in 1993 and his habilitation in fundamental theology in 2001. His research focuses on the Second Vatican Council and on the thought of Karl Rahner and John Henry Newman; he coordinated the university’s research platform devoted to religion, violence, communication and world order.
A member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie (since 2007) and of the scientific council of the Karl Rahner Prize, he chairs the International German Newman Society and the Austrian section of the European Society for Catholic Theology. Within the international project “Vaticanum II. Ereignis und Auftrag” (Vatican II: Event and Mandate), he coordinates the commentaries on the conciliar declarations Nostra Aetate and Dignitatis Humanae, which makes him a voice in interreligious dialogue, in particular with Islam.
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“The Mustard Seed Keeps Growing: Sixty Years of Nostra aetate”, by Roman A. Siebenrock
- Roman Siebenrock
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the conciliar declaration Nostra aetate (28 October 1965), Roman A. Siebenrock, professor emeritus of dogmatic theology at the University of Innsbruck, revisits ...
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Act of God : contributions to the current debate
- Roman Siebenrock
Summary In our discourse on the action of God, we touch on the central category of the discourse of Christian God. The living God of the Bible is inconceivable without his action in history among u...
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“A Theological Commentary on the Declaration Nostra aetate”, by Roman A. Siebenrock
- Roman Siebenrock
In the Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, the reference commentary on the Second Vatican Council edited by Peter Hünermann and Bernd Jochen Hilberath, Roman A. Sieben...
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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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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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Islamic Lessons for Christians
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
Islamic Lessons for Christians (Oneworld Publications, 2026) is the latest book by Gabriel Said Reynolds, Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. What, if...
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Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Pluriel working group on AI-assisted interreligious dialogue
- Wael Saleh
Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Human...
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The Recognition of a Hummingbird. Essays on Interreligious Dialogue and Missionary Work (2007-2025)
- Rémi Caucanas
Published in May 2026 by PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome), this collection brings together the essays of Rémi Caucanas on interreligious dialogue and missionary wor...