Dialogue with christian scholars The Institute for Interreligious Dialogue, in its attempt to publish specialized books on interreligious dialogue, at the first stage published a book entitled 'Dialogue with Christian Scholars' authored by Seyyed Mohammad Ali Abtahi. As an introductory part, the author has written: 'Dialogue is an intellectual exchange. In other words, dialogue is a double-faced coin, one face of which is listening and the other speaking. The people who consider themselves on the right path and others as lost or deviated can never enter the scene of true dialogue. This book comprises six dialogues. In the dialogues, such essential questions as the following have been responded: What is the essence of religion? Which aspects of human needs are met by religion? Or better put, what are the domains in which religion cannot be replaced? Which part of the religion is constant and which part variable? How far is religion influenced by the dominant culture of the divine revelation era? What is the position of religion in the contemporary world? The above-mentioned questioned have been addressed to a number of Lebanese scholars. In the course of the dialogue, attempt has been made to assess the questions in an analytical and emphathic manner.' The dialogues have been conducted with the following scholars: - Hanna Fakhoori - Tareq Mitri - Carlos Salim Besteres - George Kozor, - Moshir Basil Oun

Dialogue makes human to move and prevent him to drown in his believes and obviously if this Dialogue happens in a free and pure atmosphere it benefits everybody. We should abstain delusion and accept this fact that Dialogue would not come about unless everybody benefits from it equally. When some groups fell insecure they put obstacles around themselves, if we use Dialogue to expand religious beliefs and try to destroy and eradicates others beliefs then we have only changed the way of conflict. Contents: •Islam and Christianity from the intention of Conflict to a revived Dialogue (Fazlollah, Mohamad Hossein) •Common Ground between Islam and Christianity (Bourmance, Moris) •Muslim approach to Christianity in Medieval age (ALseyed, Rezvan) •Islam and Christianity from Conflict to Dialogue (Gharab, Saeed) •Old Heritage of Arabic Christians and its interaction with Arabic-Islamic thought (Alyasoui, Samir Jalil) •Islam and Dialogue (deliberation on one of new world's worries and difficulties) (Talebi Mohamad) •A glance on contentions between Muslims and Christians (Alseyed, Rezvan)