"The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue is an insightful and original contribution to our understanding and practice of interreligious dialogue today. By stressing the theological virtues of dialogue in practice—humility, commitment, interconnection, empathy, and hospitality—Cornille in a practical and perceptive way alerts us to the promise and difficulty of interreligious exchange, and its demands on us as persons and communities grounded in faith and possessed of complex histories. Speaking with a clear Christian voice, she makes these virtues her own too, and thus provides the space for an exchange that is neither naively optimistic nor muffled by anxieties about the risk of openness. This book will be a valuable guide in our conversations on dialogue for years to come."
—Francis X. Clooney, S. J., Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

“In a fresh and clarifying analysis, Catherine Cornille shifts the focus of discussion from the content of religious dialogue or justifications for it to a telling question: what qualities must be present in a religious tradition in order to make interreligious dialogue possible? . . . Drawing richly on her direct experience, Corneille explicitly explores the way in which these qualities may be developed in Christianity, but her discussion applies to other religions as well. This thoughtful work leads us away from academic typologies and toward the spiritual meaning of interfaith encounter.”
—S. Mark Heim, Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology Andover Newton Theological School