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What Is Dialogue?
NOTE: This essay from Dialogue Institute founder and president Leonard Swidler was originally produced in 1991 for a lecture in China, and later printed as part of the opening chapter, "Understanding Dialogue," in Interfaith Dialogue at the Grass Roots (Philadelphia: Ecumenical Press, 2008). Coming at the end of the Cold War, it marked the launching of a global paradigm shift so massive as to herald what Professor Swidler calls "the age of global dialogue" (also the title of his forthcoming book from Wipf & Stock, due out Winter, 2016). The essay lays out a basic framework for understanding dialogue, including the Meaning of Dialogue, Why Dialogue Arose, Who Should Dialogue, Kinds of Dialogue, Goals of Dialogue, The Subject of Dialogue, and When to Dialogue—and When Not.
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I. The Meaning of Dialogue
Today when we speak of dialogue between religions or ideologies we mean something quite definite; namely, a two-way communication between persons. One-way lecturing or speaking is obviously not meant by it. However, there are many different kinds of two-way communication: e.g., fighting, wrangling, debating, etc. Clearly none of these are meant by dialogue. On the other extreme is the communication between persons who hold precisely the same views on a particular subject. We also do not mean this when we use the term dialogue; rather, we might call that something like encouragement, reinforcement—but certainly not dialogue. Now, if we look at these two opposite kinds of two-way communication which are not meant by the word dialogue, we can learn quite precisely what we do in fact mean when we use the term dialogue.
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