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...reply to an unprecedented statement from Muslim clerics and scholars about the common ground between Christianity and Islam, Christian intellectuals, including nine Harvard professors, issued a letter this month responding to what many of them saw as a deeply significant gesture from the Muslim community. With 138 Muslim signatories, the September letter, “A Common Word Between Us and You,” outlines the shared belief of the love of God and the neighbor between the two faiths, and discusses the need for peace between the two religions. It draws comparisons between the Koran...
...Smith also emphasized that classes with prerequisites or without final exams are not excluded from counting for Core credit. Those standards may have been forgotten by faculty and students alike, Lewis said. As new courses open for Core credit, Lewis said, students will be notified via e-mail or letter if a class they took or are currently enrolled in now qualifies to fulfill Core requirements. A similar push to open up department alternatives occurred last spring under then-Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, but this time, the pressure to loosen restrictions is more imminent, Lewis said...
...Herschbach said in a brief telephone interview last night. “Everyone wants to be sure that during this transition the Core program continues to be robust,” Herschbach added. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith is expected to send a letter in the next few days asking professors to offer departmental courses for Core credit under the relaxed guidelines, Herschbach said. Smith could not be reached for comment last night. The move to give students more departmental options to fulfill Core requirements was discussed at a meeting of the Committee...
Still, when it came time for the 20th anniversary last year, Benedict was not going to shun Assisi altogether. While preparing for a trip a few days later to his native Bavaria, the German Pope sent a letter to the commemorative gathering that called his predecessor's focus on inter-faith dialogue at Assisi "prophetic" in light of the rising violence perpetrated in the name of religion...
...turn to the "spirit of Assisi" in trying to calm the waters after his Regensberg speech, inviting Rome-based Muslim diplomats for a meeting in the Vatican and visiting the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, where he prayed shoulder-to-shoulder with the Turkish imam. Though tensions remain, a letter earlier this month addressed to the Pope and other Christian leaders, signed by 138 prominent Muslim clerics and scholars, is seen as a potential breakthrough in relations between Islam and Christianity...