Full-time and Part-time Staff » John D'Arcy May

Associate Professor of Interfaith Dialogue, Irish School of Ecumenics

Contact:

• Phone: 01-206-0357
• Email: mayjd@tcd.ie

Research Interests:

Religious pluralism; ethics in multicultural societies; Buddhism-Christian Dialogue; religion, modernity, and post-modernity; Christian dialogue with Asian religions; religion in Australasia and the Pacific islands; tribal religions; religion and ecology.

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Publications :

• 2006 "Buddhists, Christians and Ecology" Perry Schmidt-Leukel, ed., Buddhism, Christianity and the Question of Creation: Karmic or Divine? (Aldershot: Ashgate), 93 - 107
• 2005a  “The Religions and the Powers in West Papua”, Michael Biehl and Amélé Adamavi-Aho Ekué, eds., Gottesgabe: Vom Geben und Nehmen im Kontext gelebter Religion. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Theodor Ahrens (Frankfurt: Lembeck), 199-213
• 2005b  “Alternative a Dio? Le religioni nella sfera pubblica globale”, Antonio Autiero, ed., Teologia nella Città, Teologia per la Città: La dimensione secolare delle scienze teologice (Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane), 95-109
• 2004a "A Catholic Theology of Religious Pluralism: The Recent Work of Jacques Dupuis SJ", Priests and People 18/1, 28-30
• 2004b "The Space In Between: Mission as Reconciliation", Geraldine Smith op , ed., Distance Becomes Communion: A Dominican Symposium on Mission and Hope (Dublin: Dominican Publications), 76-87
• 2004c  “Visible Unity as Realised Catholicity”, Swedish Missiological Themes 92/1, 55-61
• 2004d  “The Dialogue of Religions: Source of Knowledge? Means of Peace?”, Current Dialogue No. 43, 11-18
• 2004e  “Loving Nothingness? Possibilities of Prayer in Buddhism and Christianity”, Swedish Missiological Themes 92/3, The Dynamics of Mission and Dialogue: Studies in Honour of Aasulv Lande, 371-381
• 2004f  “Universalität oder Partikularität der Menschenrechte? Eine interreligiöse Perspektive”, Jan Jans, ed., Für die Freiheit verantwortlich. Festschrift für Karl-Wilhelm Merks zum 65. Geburtstag (Freiburg, Schw.: Academic Press Fribourg; Freiburg-Wien: Herder), 148-161
• 2004g  “Cosmic Religion and Metacosmic Soteriology: The ‘Completion’ of Interreligious Dialogue by Primal Traditions”, Robert Crusz, Marshal Fernando, Asanga Tilakaratne, eds., Encounters with the Word: Essays to Honour Aloysius Pieris SJ on his 70th Birthday (Colombo: Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue), 351-364
• 2004h  “Alternative a Dio? Le Religioni nella Sfera Pubblica Globale”, ITC Informa. Periodico dell’Istituto Trentino di Cultura 19/2, 19-20
• 2003a Transcendence and Violence: The Encounter of Buddhist, Christian and Primal Traditions (London & New York: Continuum), 225 pp.
• 2003b [review article] "The Elusive Other: Recent Theological Writing on Religious Pluralism", Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 13/1, 114-124
• 2003c [with Linda Hogan] "Constructing the Human: Dignity in Interreligious Dialogue", Regina Ammicht-Quinn, Maureen Junker-Kenny and Elsa Tamez, eds., The Discourse of Human Dignity (London: SCM, Concilium 2003/2), 78-89
• 2003d "Interreligious Dialogue and the End of Ecumenism", David W. Chappell, ed., Socially Engaged Spirituality: Essays in Honor of Sulak Sivaraksa on His 70 th Birthday (Bangkok: Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation), 476-485
• 2003f "Europe's God: Liberator or Oppressor? The Postcolonial Mediation of Transcendence", Norbert Hintersteiner, ed., Thinking God in Europe Today: Theology in Global Dialogue (New York & Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi) [forthcoming; cf. www.gottdenken.de]
• 2003g "God in Public: The Religions in Pluralist Societies", Bijdragen: International Journal in Philosophy and Theology 64/3, 249-264
• 2003h "Internalising the Primal Other: Aboriginal Religion and European Christianity", Andrew Pierce and Geraldine Smyth op , eds., The Critical Spirit: Theology at the Crossroads of Faith and Culture. Essays in Honour of Gabriel Daly osa (Dublin: Columba Press), 79-96
• 2002a "Living Buddha, Living Christ? Interreligious Dialogue and the Crisis of Christology", South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies No. 26, 25-31
  [Polding Lecture, St John's College, University of Sydney, 27 August 2001]
• 2002b "Education as Initiation? Some South Pacific Perspectives", Journal of Religious Education 50/2, 45-52
• 2002c "Ethic of Survival or Vision of Hope? The Aim of Interreligious Dialogue", Dharma World 29 (Sept.-Oct.), 25-28
• 2002d "Der Osten des Westens. Europa vor der Herausforderung des interreligiösen Dialogs", Ost-West. Europäische Perspektiven 3, 243-253
• 2002e [thesis report] "The Theology of Aloysius Pieris", Swedish Missiological Themes 90/3, 413-417
• 2001a "Mehr als Schulung. Religiöses Lernen als Identitätsstiftung im Südpazifik", Engelbert Gross, Klaus König, eds., Religiöses Lernen der Kirchen im globalen Dialog. Weltweit akute Herausforderungen und Praxis einer Weggemeinschaft für Eine-Welt-Religionspädagogik (Münster-Hamburg-London: Lit -Verlag), 107-121
  [paper read at International Religious Education Congress, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria, 13-16 October 1999]
• 2001b "Catholic Fundamentalism? Some Implications of Dominus Iesus for Dialogue and Peacemaking", Michael Rainer, ed., "Dominus Iesus": Anstössige Wahrheit oder anstössige Kirche? (Münster-Hamburg-London: Lit Verlag), 112-133
• 2001c "A Rationale for Reconciliation", Uniting Church Studies 7/1, 1-13
• 2001d "Verantwortung Coram Deo? Europa zwischen säkularer und interreligiöser Ethik", Karl-Wilhelm Merks, ed., Verantwortung - Ende oder Wandlungen einer Vorstellung? Orte und Funktionen der Ethik in unserer Gesellschaft (Münster-Hamburg-London: Lit Verlag) ,193-207
  [paper read at 29th International Congress of German Moral Theologians and Social Ethicists, Tilburg/Bovendonk, 20-24 September 1999]
• 2001e "Economics and Culture in the South Pacific", Lucia A. Reisch, ed., Ethical-ecological Investment: Towards Global Sustainable Development (Frankfurt: IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation), 117-122
• 2001f "Catholic Fundamentalism? Some Implications of Dominus Iesus for Dialogue and Peacemaking", Horizons 28/2, 271-293
• 2001g "Response to Rabbi Sidney Brichto", Tony Bayfield, Sidney Brichto, Eugene J. Fisher, eds., "He Kissed Him and They Wept": Towards a Theology of Jewish-Catholic Partnership (London: SCM), 228-232
• 2000a "Strange Encounters: On Transcending Violence by Transcending Difference", Studies in World Christianity 6/2, 224-244
• 2000b After Pluralism: Towards an Interreligious Ethic (Münster- Hamburg-London: Lit Verlag)
  [lectures delivered under the inaugural Ethel Hayton Fellowship, University of Wollongong, Australia, July-August 1994]
• 2000c/d "The Millennial Mission of South Pacific Christianity", Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 56, 204-211; Zeitschrift für Mission 26, 163-171
• 2000e "Economics and Culture in the South Pacific: Some Presuppositions of Ethical Investment in Aboriginal and Melanesian Contexts", Project Group Ethical- Ecological Rating Frankfurt-Hohenheim, eds., Intercultural Comparability of the Ethical Assessment of Enterprises According to Criteria of Cultural, Social and Environmental Responsibility (München: ökom Verlag), 70-76
• 2000f "So What Was the Point? Reflections During and After the BIAMS Conference", Timothy Yates, ed., Mission - An Invitation to God's Future (Hope Valley: Cliff College), 117-118
• 2000g "Jesus Through Buddhist Eyes: Third Conference of the European Network of Budhist-Christian Studies, St. Ottilien, Germany, 26 February - 1 March 1999", Buddhist-Christian Studies 20, 257-259
• 2000f "European Union, Christian Division? Christianity's Responsibility for Europe's Past and Future", Studies 89, 118-129
  [Christian Unity Week lecture, Trinity College Dublin]
• 1999- Series Co-editor, "Religion and Theology in the Asia-Pacific Context", Lit Verlag, Münster-Hamburg-London
• 1999a "Contested Space: Alternative Models of the Public Sphere in the Asia-Pacific", Neil Brown and Robert Gascoigne, eds., Faith in the Public Forum (Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum), 78-108
  [paper read at a conference on "Faith in the Public Forum", Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, Sydney, 2-5 January 1998]
• 1999b "The Heavy Hand of the German State: An Open Letter to Richard Hutch on Attitudes to Scientology", Australian Religious Studies Review 11/2, 134-136
• 1999c "The Loss and Rediscovery of Initiation in the South Pacific", Catalyst 29/1, 32-47
• 1999d "Empowerment and Powerlessness: Minorities and Majorities in a Pluralist Society", Ruth Weyl, ed., Unity Without Uniformity: The Challenge of Pluralism. Proceedings of the International Consultation of the International Council of Christians and Jews, 23-26 August 1998, Erlbach, Germany (Heppenheim: Martin Buber House, 1999), 151-154
• 1999e "Realised Catholicity: The Incarnational Dimension of Multiculturalism", The Australasian Catholic Record 76, 419-429
• 1999f/g "Jesus Through Buddhist Eyes: Third Conference of the European Network of Budhist-Christian Studies, St. Ottilien, Germany, 26 February - 1 March 1999", Current Dialogue 33, 68-70; Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 9/2, 226-228
• 1999h "Initiation, Initiationsverlust und Initiationsersatz im Südpazifik", Thomas Schreijäck, ed., Menschwerden im Kulturwandel. Kontexte kultureller Identität als Wegmarken interkultureller Kompetenz: Initiationen und ihre Inkulturationsprozesse (Luzern: Edition Exodus), 456-471
• 1999i "Religion, Morality and Society: A Chinese Perspective", Irish Theological Quarterly 64, 385-387
• 1998a ed., Pluralism and the Religions: The Theological and Political Dimensions (London: Cassell)
• 1998b "Piety and Politics: An Encounter with Rissho Kosei-Kai", Dharma World (Tokyo) 25, Sep./Oct., 8-10
• 1998c [review article] "Paul F. Knitter, Jesus and the Other Names, and S. Mark Heim, Salvations ", Mid-Stream 37/1, 108-113
• 1998d "Zen With Teeth: The Contributions of Buddhists and Christians to Preserving the Earth", Buddhist-Christian Studies 18, 213-215
• 1997a "Aboriginal Religion and Australian Culture", Nelen Yubu (Sydney) No. 65, 1-12
• 1997b "Development Without Violence: Some Buddhist and Christian Sources for Development Ethics", Seeds of Peace (Bangkok) 13/1, 18-25
  [paper read at international conference of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, De Paul University, Chicago, July 27 - August 3, 1996]
• 1997c "Ecology and the Religions: A Marriage of Convenience?", Future Generations Journal 22/1, 18-21
• 1997d "Gibt es eine buddhistische Wirtschaftsethik?", Maria Hungerkamp and Matthias Lutz, eds., Grenzenüberschreitende Ethik. Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Johannes Hoffmann anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstages (Frankfurt a.M.: IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation), 65-82
• 1996a "Ecology: Our Newest Religion?", Doctrine and Life (Dublin) 46, 578-585
• 1996b "Pomirenje I oprostaj u Irskoj" ["Nationalismus und Religion. Das Beispiel Irland"], Nobosja Popov, ed., Trauma i katarza u istorijskom pamcenju (Beograd: Srpska Strana Rata), 713-725
  [paper contributed to a conference of the New Serbian Forum, Belgrade, 8-10 December, 1995]
• 1995a "The Ethics of Multiculturalism: An Ecumenical Challenge for Australia", St Mark's Review (Canberra) No. 160, 25-31
  [Inaugural Ted Arblaster Memorial Lecture, St Mark's National Theological Centre, Canberra, August 1994]
• 1995b "Transforming Pluralism and Dialogue", Doctrine and Life 45, 524-533
  [Irish School of Ecumenics annual Academic Council lecture, November 1995]
• 1995c "Instrumentalisierung des Christentums durch die Politik? Das Beispiel Nordirland", Una Sancta 50, 141-150
• 1994a "What do Socially Engaged Buddhists and Christian Liberation Theologians Have to Say to One Another?", Dialogue (Colombo) 21, 1-18
  [paper read at annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, University of Melbourne, July 1992]
• 1994b "'Rights of the Earth' and 'Care for the Earth': Two Paradigms for a Buddhist-Christian Ecological Ethic", Horizons 21, 48-61
  [paper read at international conference of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, University of Boston, July 1992]
• 1994c [review article] "Ministry Reconsidered", Doctrine and Life 44, 150-152
• 1994d "Menschenrechte als Landrechte im Pazifik. Vier Fallstudien", Johannes Hoffmann, ed., Universale Menschenrechte im Widerspruch der Kulturen. Das eine Menschenrecht für alle und die vielen Lebensformen, Bd. II (Frankfurt: IKO-Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation), 213-237
• 1994e "Reconciliation in Buddhism", Michael Hurley, ed., Reconciliation in Religion and Society. Proceedings of a conference organised by the Irish School of Ecumenics and the University of Ulster (Belfast: Queen's University, Institute of Irish Studies), 177-182
• 1994f Art. "Australien: I. Allgemeine Einführung; III. Kirchengeschichte; IV. Kirche und Theologie in der Gegenwart; V. Theologie und Theologen in Australien; VI. Statistik", Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (Freiburg: Herder), 1273-1284
• 1993a "Human Rights as Land Rights in the Pacific", Pacifica: Australian Theological Studies 6, 61-80
• 1993b [review article] "100 Years of Global Interfaith Dialogue: 1893-1993", Doctrine and Life 43, 61-80
• 1993c "Is Interfaith Dialogue Undermining Interchurch Dialogue? Ecumenics as the Framework for an Integral Ecumenism", Oliver Rafferty SJ, ed., Reconciliation: Essays in Honour of Michael Hurley (Dublin: Columba Press), 159-175
• 1993d "Sulak and the King of Siam", Five Cycles of Friendship, by Friends of Sulak Sivaraksa to Honour his Sixtieth Birthday (Bangkok: Suksit Siam & Kled Thai Co.), 53-54
• 1993e Art. "Australien VI. Kultur, Religion, Bildung", Staatslexikon (Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, 7. Aufl.), 838-840
• 1993f "The Trinity in Melanesia: The Understanding of the Christian God in a Pacific Culture", James Byrne, ed., The Christian Understanding of God Today. Theological Colloquium on the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin: Columba Press) 154-165
• 1992 "Reporting Religion: A Response to Greg Bailey", Australian Religion Studies Review 5, 42-43
• 1991a "Syncretism or Synthesis? An Anticipatory Sketch of Religious Change in the Pacific", South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies 1/4, 18-21
• 1991b "Is Theology a Social Science?", Doctrine and Life 41, 458-464
• 1991c Art. "Papua-Neuguinea", Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon Bd. III (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 3. Aufl.), 1035-37
• 1991d "A Pacific Assembly? The Significance of the WCC's Canberra Assembly for Religion in Australia", Australian Religion Studies Review 4, 22-24
• 1991e "Synkretismus oder Synthese? Eine antizipatorische Skizze des religiösen Wandels im Pazifik", Hermann Pius Siller, ed., Suchbewegungen. Synkretismus - kulturelle Identität und kirchliches Bekenntnis (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 185-192
• 1991f "Wind and Fire: An Interpretation of the VIIth Assembly of the WCC", Doctrine and Life 41, 226-232
• 1991g "The Dance of the Spirit: A Theological Interpretation of the VIIth Assembly of the WCC", Doctrine and Life 41, 305-311
• 1991h "Beginn eines ernsthaften interkulturellen Gesprächs", Rapport der Sektion III: Menschenrechte im multireligiösen Kontext Asiens, Johannes Hoffmann, ed., Begründung von Menschenrechten aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Kulturen. Band I des Symposiums Das eine Menschenrecht für alle und die vielen Lebensformen (Frankfurt: IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation), 151-155
• 1990a Christus Initiator. Theologie im Pazifik (Düsseldorf: Patmos)
• 1990b "The Economics of Ecumenics", Search: A Church of Ireland Journal 13, 32-36
• 1990c "Political Ecumenism: Church Structures and the Political Process", Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 79, 396-405
• 1990d "Ökumene im Übergang: Gedanken zur Grundlegung ökumenischer Theorie und Praxis aus westkirchlicher Sicht", Una Sancta 45, 274-280
  [keynote address at 30th anniversary celebrations of Catholic Ecumenical Institute, University of Münster, June 1990]
• 1990e "Teaching Ecumenics in a New Europe: Irish School of Ecumenics Celebrates 20th Anniversary", Ecumenical Trends 19, 116-119
• 1989a [co-editor] Lo bilong yumi yet: Law and Custom in Melanesia, by Bernard Narokobi (Goroka: The Melanesian Institute; Suva: University of the South Pacific = Point Series No. 12)
• 1989b "Die kleineren 'Glaubensmissionen'", H. Wagner, G. Fugmann, H. Janssen, eds., Papua Neuguinea: Gesellschaft und Kirche. Ein ökumenisches Handbuch (Neuendettelsau: Freimund-Verlag; Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission), 216-218
• 1989c "Ökumenische Zusammenarbeit", ibid. 219-226
• 1988a "Integral Ecumenism: Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Ireland", Doctrine and Life 38, 190-198
  [inaugural lecture, Irish School of Ecumenics, November 1987]
• 1988b "'The Only Great Ecumenical Question': Christian-Jewish Relations", Studies 77, 300-308
  [lecture, Irish Council of Christians and Jews, Dublin, November 1987]
• 1988c "Integral Ecumenism", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 25, 573-591
• 1988d "Response to Patrick O'Farrell", Australian Religion Studies Review 1, 15-18
• 1987a "Kontextuelle Theologie in Melanesien", Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 71, 279-291
  [guest lecture, University of Frankfurt, May 1986]
• 1987b "Contextual Theology in Melanesia", Theology Digest 35, 25-29
• 1987c "The Religious Studies Saga in Melanesia: Some Historical Background", Melanesian Journal of Theology 3, 9-21
  [paper read at a consultation on tertiary level religious education in Melanesia, Goroka, April 1987]
• 1987d [report] "The Ethics of Development: 17th Waigani Seminar, University of Papua New Guinea, 7-12 September, 1986", Melanesian Journal of Theology 3, 54-63
• 1987e "Towards the Development of Ethics", Catalyst: Social Pastoral Magazine for Melanesia 17, 235-251
• 1987f "Dialogue between Religions", Max Charlesworth, Peter Fenner, eds., Religious Investigations: Study Guide (Deakin University, Australia), 81-100
• 1987g Art. "Einheit der Menschheit", "Glaubensbekenntnis", "Leiden", "Symbol", "Tod", "Volk Gottes", Adel Theodor Khoury, ed., Lexikon religiöser Grundbegriffe. Judentum, Christentum, Islam (Graz, Wien, Köln: Verlag Styria)
• 1986a "The Autonomous Church in Independent Papua New Guinea", H. Wagner, H. Reiner, eds., The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea: The First Hundred Years, 1886-1986 (Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House), 307-326
• 1986b Christian Fundamentalism and Melanesian Identity (Goroka: The Melanesian Institute, Occasional Paper No. 3)
  [paper read in the section "Melanesia, Australia and Oceania", XVth International Congress, International Association for the History of Religions, University of Sydney, August 1985]
• 1986c "Ministerial Training for Australian Aborigines", Melanesian Journal of Theology 1, 200-204
• 1985-1987 Founding Editor, Melanesian Journal of Theology: Journal of the Melanesian Association of Theological Schools
• 1985a "Theologies of the 'Third Church'", Melanesian Journal of Theology 1, 65-71
• 1985b "Whatever Happened to the Melanesian Council of Churches? A Study in Ecumenical Organisation", Melanesian Journal of Theology 1, 138-157
• 1985c ed., Living Theology in Melanesia: A Reader (Goroka: The Melanesian Institute = Point Series No. 8)
• 1984a Meaning, Consensus and Dialogue in Buddhist-Christian Communication: A Study in the Construction of Meaning (Berne: Peter Lang = Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, Vol. 31)
• 1984b "Einige Voraussetzungen interreligiöser Kommunikation am Beispiel Buddhismus und Christentum", Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 40, 26-35
• 1984c [report] "Melanesian Theology: Melanesian Theologians at Work", Catalyst 14, 181-186
  [also in: Journal of Ecumenical Studies 21, 414-415]
• 1984d "Essence - Identity - Liberation: Three Ways of Looking at Christianity", Religious Traditions 6, 30-41
  [paper read at VIIth Annual Conference, Australian Association for the Study of Religions, University of Melbourne, August 1982]
• 1984f "The Prospects of Melanesian Theology", Catalyst 14, 290-301
• 1984g "'Lokalisierung': Selbsthilfe oder Überforderung?", M. Sollich, ed., Probezeit ausgeschlossen. Erfahrungen und Perspektiven der personellen Entwicklungsarbeit (Mainz: Grünewald; München: Chr. Kaiser), 105-109
• 1983 "Dialog und Befreiung. Versuch einer Vermittlung zwischen 'pazifischen' und 'atlantischen' Theologien", Junge Kirche 44, 165-170
  [valedictory lecture, Catholic Ecumenical Institute, University of Münster, February 1983]
• 1982a "Vom Vergleich zur Verständigung. Die unstete Geschichte der Vergleiche zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum, 1880-1980", Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 66, 58-66
  [guest lecture at University of Bremen, May 1981]
• 1982b "Probleme einer Untersuchung zur 'Sinnkonstruktion' im frühen Buddhismus und Christentum", Linguistica Biblica 50, 33-39
  [research report, section on Semiotik der Religionen, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik, IIIrd Congress, University of Hamburg, October 1981]
• 1982c "Christian-Buddhist-Marxist Dialogue in Sri Lanka: A Model for Social Change in Asia?", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 19, 719-743
• 1981a "'Making Sense of Death' in Christianity and Buddhism: Towards a 'Pragmasemantic' Analysis of 1 Thess 4:13-5:11 and Sutta-Nipata III,8 ('The Dart Sutta')", Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 65, 51-69
  [paper read at the IVth annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, University of Sydney, August 1979]
• 1981b "'Volk Gottes' als Grundlage einer Theologie der Religionen: Ein katholisches Votum", H.H. Hendrix, ed., Unter dem Bogen des Bundes. Beiträge aus jüdischer und christlicher Existenz (Aachen: Einhard), 235-249
  [paper read to Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit, Krefeld, October 1980]
• 1980a "Consensus in Religion: An Essay in Fundamental Ecumenics", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 17, 407-431
• 1980b "Sprache der Einheit - Sprache der Zwietracht. Der Rassismus als Testfall ökumenischer Kommunikation", P. Lengsfeld, ed., Ökumenische Theologie. Ein Arbeitsbuch (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer), 251-284
• 1980c [with H.G. Stobbe] "Übereinstimmung und Handlungsfähigkeit. Zur Grundlage ökumenischer Konsensbildung und Wahrheitsfindung", ibid. 301-337
• 1980d "Vom innerchristlichen zum interreligiösen Dialog", ibid. 426-432
• 1980e "Buddhist and Christian Responses to Social and Technical Revolution", Dialogue 7, 23-40
  [paper read at Marga Institute, Colombo, August 1979]
• 1980f "Religious Symbolisations of Nature in Ethical Argumentation: A 'Pragmasemantic' Analysis of Romans 8:18-25 and a Buddhist Comparison", Linguistica Biblica No. 48, 19-48
  [paper read at XIVth International Congress of the IAHR, Winnipeg, August 1980]
• 1980g [review article] "Menschenrechte als ökumenische Frage", Una Sancta 35, 182-184
• 1979 "Fehlt dem Christentum ein Verhältnis zur Natur? Eine Analyse der Seligpreisungen (Mt 5,2-12) und der Feuerpredigt des Buddha (Samy. XXXV,28)", Una Sancta 34, 159-171
  [abridged in Anstösse aus der Arbeit der Evangelischen Akademie Hofgeismar , 2/1979, 68-75]
• 1978a "Der Lotos in der Wüste. Der Aufbruch der Religionswissenschaft in Australien", Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 62, 134-143
• 1978b "Ökumene vor der Barriere Angst", Una Sancta 33, 190-195
• 1977a "Kulturelle Identität und wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit als Probleme ökumenischer Kommunikation", Una Sancta 32, 70-83
  [English summary: Journal of Ecumenical Studies 15 (1978) 358]
• 1977b "The Religious Construction of Meaning: Christianity and Buddhism as 'Problem-Solvers'", Victor C. Hayes, ed., Australian Essays in World Religions (Adelaide: Australian Association for the Study of Religions), 106-115
  [paper read to Adelaide chapter of AASR, March 1977]
• 1977c "From Ecumenical Theology to Fundamental Ecumenics", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 14, 304-312
• 1977d "Vorbereitende Überlegungen zu einer Konsenstheorie der Konziliarität", Una Sancta 32, 94-104
  [English summary, Journal of Ecumenical Studies 15 (1978) 777-778]
• 1976a Sprache der Ökumene - Sprache der Einheit. Die Einheit der Menschheit: Zukünftige Grundlage der theologischen Ethik der Katholischen Kirche und des Ökumenischen Rats der Kirchen? (Bonn: Verlag Linguistica Biblica = Forum Theologiae Linguisticae Bd. 12)
• 1976b "Ökumene jenseits der Kirchen? Die 'neue Religiosität' in soziologischer und ökumenischer Hinsicht", Una Sancta 31, 188-204
  [English summary: Journal of Ecumenical Studies 14 (1977), 351-352]
• 1976c "Strategien der Ökumene. Eine Problemanalyse", Test - Katholische Studentenzeitschrift 17/2, 48-53
• 1976d "Was sagen 'Glaubensaussagen' aus? Ein Versuch mit dem Sinnbegriff", Linguistica Biblica No. 39, 5-36
• 1971 "The Infallibility Debate in Germany", Compass Theology Review 5, 55-59
• 1970 "What is Political Theology?", Compass Theology Review 4, 88-94

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