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Themes

Featured Theme

Group photo of Building Bridges Seminar participants with a mosque and cityscape in the background

Jun
15

2026

Featured - Hope

Over the course of the week, this gathering of international scholars in Sarajevo engaged in dialogical close reading of Muslim and Christian texts on the theme of “Hope: Muslim and Christian Perspectives.” The public was invited to the seminar’s opening session on June 15.

List of Themes

Believers and Our Ethics in the Public Square

Christian Theology and the Dialogue with Islam

A World of Inequalities

Bearing the Word

Building a Better Bridge

Communicating the Word

Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny

God's Word and the Community of Faith

Human Action Within Divine Creation

Humanity: Texts and Contexts

Justice and Rights

Mercy and Grace

Monotheism and Its Complexities

Power—Divine and Human

Science and Religion

Scriptures in Dialogue

Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

The Community of Believers

Tradition and Modernity