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News | 14th August 2025

Selected chapters of new book on Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Integral Ecology are now available

As part of the LSRI's research focus on Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Integral Ecology, three chapters of the upcoming book On the Care and Balance of Our Common Home: Christian-Muslim Dialogues are now available as a pre-print publication. The chapters are:

  • Chapter 1, "The Theologies of Creation in the Qur’an and the Bible" (Dietrich Werner and Naiyerah Kolkailah);

  • Chapter 2, "Theological Anthropology" (Benedikt Schmidt and Ismail Lala); and

  • Chapter 4, "Ecological Ethics and Practices" (Séverine Deneulin and Masooda Bano).

Chapters 1, 2 and 4: Click here to read

In each chapter of the full book, scholars from both traditions engage together to provide the theological underpinnings of their respective analytical frames for addressing the current ecological crisis as well as potential lines of practical action.

The complete book On the Care and Balance of Our Common Home: Christian-Muslim Dialogues will be published as an open access resource in Autumn 2025, with support from the Berkley Centre at Georgetown University. It aims to serve as a key educational resource for inter-faith education on internal ecology.

Building on Expanding Research Programme

The project, led by Séverine Deneulin and Farhana Mayer, has previously published An Introduction to Qur'anic Ecology and Resonances with Laudato Si' (supported by the Randeree Charitable Trust) and a special issue of Religion and Development on 'Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development' (supported by the Oxford-Berlin Partnership).

As part of the project, with support from the MB Reckitt Trust, the LSRI will run a formation course on Christian-Muslim Dialogues on Ecology in 2026, in partnership with the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham and the Cambridge Muslim College. The formation course aims to equip Christian and Muslim community leaders with the intellectual and theological resources to respond together to today’s ecological crisis. Registration will open in September 2025. 

This research programme is conducted in collaboration with the  Religious Communities and Sustainable Development Programme of the Humboldt University zu Berlin.