” “"The greatest challenge for Christians today requires that they do not give in to the nostalgia of the alliances between faith and civil religion, but that they go for the creative way of a radical pluralism". It was said today by Giuseppe Ruggieri from the Theological Centre of Catania, in dealing with "The Name and the names", on the first day of the 43rd Ecumenical Training Session of Sae (Segretariato attività ecumeniche Secretariat of Ecumenical Activities), about the subject "Called to faith in the days of history. Churches, identity, laicism", which opened in Chianciano Terme (Si) today. "Christians stated Ruggieri are not just called to be meek and tolerant, but also to announce the salvation of the nations in the name of Jesus Christ, in the belief that the absolute Name of God is over and above all the relative names used by the human beings and at the same time that every name and therefore every religion may be a way to join God". Twelve will be the study groups that will address the subjects of the meeting, from the relation between Christianity and power to the relation between the Kingdom of God and history, from the relation between mystical theology and laicism to religion as a source of conflict or peace, from the pedagogy of inter-religious dialogue to bioethics, from the history of Zionism to the representation of faith on movie screens. This afternoon, a round table, "First look for the Kingdom of God and His justice", will be attended by the Waldensian Fulvio Ferrario, the Catholic Piero Stefani and the Orthodox Vladimir Zelinsky.” “
