Becoming Interreligious - Towards a Dialogical Theology from a Jewish Vantage Point

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Necessity and Challenge of Interreligiosity

Choice

New values

A world-centered religiosity

The question of belonging

A different mindset: com-passion with others

“Trans-difference”

The transcendent

Uniqueness, communication and “trans-difference”

Distinctiveness and covenantality

Inspiration from Buber and Levinas

The other in Levinas’s ethical metaphysics

Plural society, religion and redemption of the subject

Remedies

Interreligious theology

A theology in touch with reality

Conditions for dialogue

Chapter 2. Hassidic Ingredients for Interreligiosity

Everyone is called

Everyone has his own way

A united soul

Start with yourself

Chapter 3. Violence and Peace in Religions

The violent side of human existence

Violent desire

Violent jealousy

False religiosity

Peace as proximity

Pursuing peace as disciples of Aharon

Truth and peace

Erasing God’s name in the name of peace

Learned people and shalom

Ask for the peace of Jerusalem for the sake of the neighbor, for God’s sake

The holiness of wholeness

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Religious views on suffering

Mercy and its limits

God, a merciful Father and a righteous Judge

Chapter 4. Interreligious Teaching and Dialogue

Interreligious co-teaching

Hindu and Jewish perspectives on interreligious friendship

Jewish and Buddhist thoughts

Abraham and Ibrahim

Jewish and Alevite light

Buber and the Dalai Lama

Pascha and Pesach

Peace talks

Finkenwerder

Dr. Ramezani

Chapter 5. Interreligious Theology

John Hick

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Michael S. Kogan

Theocentric Christians

Multiple religious belonging

Chapter 6. Between Christians and Jews

Openness in the Jewish tradition

Christian changes and Jewish responses

Nostra Aetate: a document of teshuva

Jewish influence on Nostra Aetate

Critical notes

Dabru emet

Jewish recognition of the legitimacy of Christianity

“Dabru emet” and religious Jews

Together towards the future

The American Jewish approach to Christianity and to Nostra Aetate

The inner-Jewish debate: Soloveitchik and Heschel

Judaism and Christianity: different and related

A psychological interpretation of Soloveitchik’s standpoint

No religion is an island

An outstretched hand to Christians

Statement of orthodox rabbis on Christianity

Jews reaching out to Christians: the case of Rosenzweig

The rays or the eternal way

Buber and interreligious theology

The category of presence

The art of translating

Relation to Christianity

Differences and trans-difference

A link between Judaism and Christianity

The antithetic view in "Two Types of Faith"

Recent Jewish views on Jesus and Paul

New Perspective on Paul

Chapter 7. On the Urgency of Dialogical Hermeneutics

Text and context

The problem and the chance of religions

The power of midrash

Dialogical reading

Lessing and beyond

Constructive theology

Hospitality

Excessive love for the own makes us forget the other

Particularism and universalism

From text to context and from context to text

Religiosity as having the capacity to be ashamed

Philosophy and interreligious dialogue

What texts mean and what they could mean

Identity and meta-identity

A pioneer experiment of dialogical hermeneutics and the problem of naivety

The problem of assimilatory alienation of the text and the priority of reading the text in its natural context

Example

“Trans-difference”

Universal friendship

Holy texts and human rights: combining the secular and the sacred

Polemic and dialogical interpretations

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Names