Toward Our Mutual Flourishing—The Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness

A US educator and consultant on interreligious matters, Mosher introduces Episcopal diocesan interfaith officers and others to The Theological Statement on Interreligious Relations adopted by the General Convention of The Episcopal Church in 2009. She explains what the document says and how it came to be, and places it within the context of other interfaith relations documents The Episcopal Church has issued. She covers The Episcopal Church's principles for dialogue, interfaith relations and the churches, Episcopal guidelines for Christian-Jewish relations, The Episcopal Church considers Islam, locating and justifying interfaith relations, and toward a mutual flourishing. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lucinda Allen Mosher, an educator and consultant on interreligious matters, received her ThD from General Theological Seminary. She is Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies at Hartford Seminary. Concurrently, she is Assistant Academic Director of the Building Bridges seminars and founding instructor for the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s annual Worldviews Seminar. Her clients have included Auburn Seminary’s Center for Multifaith Education, Trinity Institute, The Episcopal Church's Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, and the Anglican Communion Network of Inter Faith Concerns. The author of the Faith in the Neighborhood book series on America’s religious diversity, Mosher has written many articles on multifaith issues generally and Christian-Muslim concerns specifically. She lectures and offers workshops regularly across the country and abroad.