1st Edition

Fratelli Tutti in Conversation Voices from World Religions

Edited By Joseph Tham, Sameer Advani Copyright 2026
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This volume explores how major religious traditions engage with Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti , offering comparative insights into fraternity, solidarity, and ethical responsibility in a global bioethical discourse. Bringing together perspectives from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, the book examines how Fratelli Tutti resonates with and challenges... Read more

Contents

List of Contributors

 

Religious Responses to Fratelli Tutti

Sameer Advani

PART 1: Setting the Stage

1. Bioethics: Cross-Cultural Explorations

Joseph Tham

2. Cross-Cultural and Inter-religious Dialogue: Fratelli Tutti in Conversation for a Better World

Alberto García Gómez

3. Catholic Approaches to Interreligious Dialogue

Sameer Advani

4. From Fratelli Tutti to Integral Human Development

Edmund Siu-Tong Kwok and Christine Tin-Chi Lai

PART 2: Different Religious Responses 

5. A Response to Fratelli Tutti from a Confucian Perspective

Ruiping Fan

6. Between Universalism and Particularism. A Comment on Chapter 5 of Fratelli Tutti from a Jewish Point of View

David Heyd

7. Responses to Fratelli Tutti from the Buddhist Ethics of “Hospitality”

Ellen Y. Zhang 

8. An Orthodox Christian Reflection on Fratelli Tutti: the Virtues of Interfaith and Ecumenical Dialogue

Chris Durante 

9. An Islamic response to Fratelli Tutti

Luzita Ball and Harfiyah Abdel Haleem  

10. Hindus and their Christian Interlocutors

John Lunstroth. 

Index

Biography

Joseph Tham is Full Professor in the School of Bioethics at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. He is a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights.

Sameer Advani is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology, and Director of the Christianity and Culture Program, at Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. He collaborates with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights as a Research Scholar.