Christian-Muslim Relations

Works by
Joseph Kenny, O.P.

Studies

• Views on Muslim-Christian relations   Lagos: Dominican Publications, 1999. Religious freedom in Christian and Muslim thought, the possibility of salvation for the other, and principles of dialogue. My own essays with key documents on the topics.
• Facing ethnicity and religion: A concern in Nigerian education   Given at U.I. Conference Centre Seminar, Feb. 1997, and published in E.E. Uwazie, I.O. Albert & G.N. Uzoigwe, Inter-ethnic and religious conflict resolution in Nigeria (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Lexington Books, 1999), Chapter 5, pp. 49-56.
• A comparative perspective of Bio-ethics: Catholic, Protestant, Muslim views   UCH conference on medical ethics, Ibadan, 18 February 1997 (with the help of Benedict Faneye, O.P.).
• Thomas Aquinas: Reasons for the Faith against Muslim objections   (and one objection of the Greeks and Armenians), to the Cantor of Antioch. Introduction and translation, first published in Islamochristiana (Rome), 22 (1996), 31-52.
• The challenge of Islam in Nigeria   Published in West African Journal of Ecclesial Studies, 4 (1992), 46-58.
• Foi chrétienne en dialogue avec l'Islam   Delivered at the Semaine Théologique, Kinshasa (prescribed title), and published Quelle Eglise pour l'Afrique du troisième millenaire? Actes du XVIIIe Semaine Théologique de Kinshasa (Kinshasa. Les Facultés Catholiques, 1991), 165-184. An English version is incorporated in the above book.
• Designing courses on dialogue   First published in Orita, 18:2 (December 1986), 103-106, this is a collaborated work with my late collegue, Sam Babs Mala. It is the fruit of our experience in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan.
• The dynamism of Islam in West Africa   Delivered at the AECAWA Study Session of 1992.
• Comparative concepts and hermeneutics in the Bible and the Qur'ân   For a course given at the University of Ibadan.
• Muslim use of Christian Scriptures   West African Religions, Vols. 2-3 (1980), 31-41.
• Reassessment of apostolate among Muslims   International Review of Mission, Vol. 39 (1970), 32-38.
• Islam and violence from a Girardian perspective   AECAWA Interreligious Dialogue Commission, Study Papers: "Religion, violence and peace in West Africa, Accra, 7-10 October 2002.
• Christology and the challenge of inter-religious dialogue   Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria (CATHAN), 22-25 April 2003.
• Forty years of interreligious dialogue in Nigeria: Personal reminiscences   In Anthony Akinwale & Francis Ogunmodede (ed.), All that they had to live on. Essays in honour of Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Msgr. John Aniagwu, pp. 184-191.
• Preaching to a Muslim or mixed audience   In Preaching in contemporary Nigeria: Essays in memory of Michael J. Dempsey, O.P. Ibadan: The Michael J. Dempsey Centre for Religious and Social Research, Dominican Institute, 2003, 115-118.
• Guidelines for inter-religious dialogue   (with Frédéric Ntedika Mvumbi, O.P.) Inter-religious Dialogue Commission of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, Training for dialogue: CBCN, IRDC Regional Seminar, Agbarho, 27-30 May 2003, 53-65.
• Dialogue of Paleologos II with the Persian Mudarris   Translated from the Greek, September 2006.
• Salvation of Muslims   A 2006 update of "Christology and the chalenge of inter-religious dialogue.
• Christian-Muslim relations in the two centuries following Muḥammad's appearance,   for Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Seminar "Know your Muslim neighbour", Abuja, 20 April 2010.

Talks & brief notes

• Rapport with Muslims   To the laity of Ijebu-Ode diocese, at Diocesan Inter-religious Dialogue Commission seminar, 25 August 2001.
• Setting the tone of our religious communities   a talk given at a Muslim seminar at Premier Hotel, Ibadan, sponsored by the Caring and Sharing Muslim Centre, Ibadan, 16 June 2001
• Dialogue: the solution or the problem?   Written in 2000 to address issues raised in an article by Muhammad Talbi.
• Reconciliation for Nigeria   Delivered at monthly forum of Catholic Secretariat, Lagos, 14 May 2000
• The Holy Spirit: What He can mean to Muslims   Given at meeting of Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, Enugu, 22 October 1997 on the occasion of the "year of the Holy Spirit". Compare with God the Father, prepared for 1999, the "year of the Father".
• Islam and Church witness in the 21st century   Given at the CAPA [Conference of Anglican Provinces of Africa] New Bishops' Training Course, Ibadan, 5 June 1999).
• The Islamic solution to the problem of Nigeria in distress   Glory Magazine, 10:1 (Jan-March 1997)
• Christmas   The Hope, 1996. A comparison of N.T. & Qur'ân texts.
• Peace among people of different religions   Delivered to an inter-religious gathering at Parliament House, Ibadan, Nov. 1996.
• Alien but part of us: the Muslim world   (Sunday Visitor, 1991).
• Church contextualization in Africa   With Paul Oye and Segun Taiwo paper given at AECAWA seminar, Ikeja, Lagos.
• Meeting in faith, hope and love   Delivered to the Nigerian Conference of Women Religious, January 1988, published in Akéde Ìgbàgbó, 2 (1989), 24-26, it analyses Christian-Muslim relations from the standpoint of the three theological virtues.
• Chrétiens en dialogue avec Musulmans   Written for Colombe, the Kinshasa Dominican publication.
• The dignity of man vis-a-vis the religions   Nigerian Dialogue, N. 2 (1977), 59-60.
• Towards better understanding of Muslims and Christians   Nigerian Journal of Islam, Vol. 2 (1971-72), N. 1, 51-54.
• Talk at Ahmadiyya Mosque, Odo-Ona, Ibadan   1971 (re-edited in 2010). Delivered in English and translated into Yoruba by the then novice, Ayo-Maria Atoyebi, O.P.

Reviews

• Studia Semitica, by E.I.J. Rosenthal, vol. 1 Jewish themes (review). Reviewed in Orita 6:1 (1972), 51-53.
• Islam and Christianity, a Muslim and a Christian in dialogue, by Badru D. Kateregga & David W. Shenk. Reviewed in Nigerian Christian, 15:2 (Feb. 1981), 12.
• Islam and revolution, writings and declarations of Imam Khomeini. Reviewed in Orita, 14:2 (1982), 163-164.
• West African Christianity, by Lamin Sanneh. Reviewed in Orita, 16:1 (1984), 67-68.
• Muslim-Christian dialogue in Nigeria, by V. Chukwulozie. Reviewed in Orita, 18:2 (1986), 107-110.