Tag: The Venerable

  • We can­not afford to main­tain these ancient prej­u­dices against Islam

    In the 12th cen­tu­ry, Peter the Ven­er­a­ble, Abbot of Cluny, ini­ti­at­ed a dia­logue with the Islam­ic world. ​“I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the Mus­lims whom he imag­ined read­ing his book, ​“not with force, but with rea­son, not with hatred, but with love.” Yet his trea­tise was enti­tled Sum­ma­ry of…