Featured White Papers
- Hosted CRM comparison guide (Inside CRM)
- Hosted CRM buyer's guide (Inside CRM)
- Enterprise PBX comparison guide (VoIP-News)
Content provided in partnership with
Trialogue - When words don't fail - monotheism - Brief Article
ArtForum, Nov, 2001 by Daniel Libeskind
Living in our ecumenical age, it is assumed as common wisdom that the three monotheistic religions can coexist in harmony and that a "trialogue" can resolve their differences and unify humanity. Of course, I share in this belief, because it is the only hope humanity has. However, one can see the deep roots in every religion that point to fundamentally irreconcilable and mutually exclusive claims that suggest there is no room for Others. In the immediate aftermath of the horrible events of September 11, 1 turned to reread a number of passages in the Koran. Even in translated versions, the distance between reality and prophetic utterance, due to the temporal paradox of experience and the Eternal, is evident. The expedient use of claims on behalf of prophets and religions--Christian, Jewish, or Muslim-- distorts the truly evolutionary realization: that for all the variety of texts and deities, there is but one God.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, which opened to the public on September 9 after two years' vacancy.
COPYRIGHT 2001 Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2002 Gale Group
