Engaging Structural Greed Today: Christian and Muslims in Dialogue​

Positive resistance to structural greed is imperative, not simply due to its debilitating effects impacting on our livelihoods on a day to day basis, but also because it impinges upon our way of being in this world as Muslims and Christians. A recognition that the economy is simply a means to higher ends—such as happiness, belonging and security—can serve as a good basis for an interfaith dialogue towards overcoming structural greed.

Keywords: Structural greed, economics, gift economy, Christians, Muslims, interfaith dialogue.

Journal of Islamic Sciences, Vol. 12 (Summer 2014) No. 1

Wan Aimran, Adi Setia and Aliff Basri

All three authors are members of the Vision in Action (ViA) Study Circle, who attended—on the invitation of the organizers—a Christian-Muslim Interfaith Dialogue on “Engaging Structural Greed Today” organized by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and Sabah Theological Seminary (STS) through September25—30 2011 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia