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The debate about Christianity and other religions has stalled. This work aims to overcome this by enabling both theologians and pastoral workers to work out where they stand with regard not just to other faith traditions but to a variety of issues that arise for religious faith of any kind in a secular pluralist world.

Introduction -- The legal nature of the right of light -- Content of the right of light -- Acquisition of rights by deed -- Acquisition of rights of light by prescription -- The measurement of light -- Remedies -- Extinguishment and overriding of rights of light -- The Rights of Light Act 1959 -- Town planning -- Registration and transfer of easements of light -- Reform -- Appendix 1: Prescription Act 1832 -- Appendix 2: Rights of Light Act 1959.

Taking the theme of learning as central to the responsible practice of interfaith dialogue, Michael Barnes discusses a Christian spirituality which builds on virtues of hospitality and the welcoming of other traditions, whilst maintaining the importance of difference and particularity in the search for meaning. Each chapter explores how faith grows as a person crosses a threshold into another religious world and learns sensitivity to echoes of the known in the unknown. Encounters with the religious other, refracted through texts, conversations, artefacts and places, are used to illustrate the ancient Patristic theme of 'seeds of the Word'. Cumulatively they show that faith which learns how to engage imaginatively with another religious world constantly returns to the 'home' tradition, reinvigorated in its appreciation of the other. This book contributes to current comparative theology studies, using a theological approach to interreligious studies complementary to one based on the experience of interpersonal relations

Michael Barnes SJ contributes to the debate about the place of inter-religious relations in the life of the Church by developing a 'theology of dialogue'. He offers a critique of much current thinking in this area and proposes instead a theology rooted in the themes of welcome and hospitality

This text provides a unique exploration of the relationship between religious & scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought are complementary, Barnes delineates the successive stages of the co-evolution of religious & scientific thought in the West, from the preliterate culture of antiquity up to the present day