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Book Cover
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Imprint
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. The Necessity and Challenge of Interreligiosity
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Choice
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New values
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A world-centered religiosity
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The question of belonging
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A different mindset: com-passion with others
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“Trans-difference”
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The transcendent
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Uniqueness, communication and “trans-difference”
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Distinctiveness and covenantality
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Inspiration from Buber and Levinas
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The other in Levinas’s ethical metaphysics
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Plural society, religion and redemption of the subject
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Remedies
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Interreligious theology
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A theology in touch with reality
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Conditions for dialogue
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Chapter 2. Hassidic Ingredients for Interreligiosity
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Everyone is called
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Everyone has his own way
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A united soul
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Start with yourself
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Chapter 3. Violence and Peace in Religions
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The violent side of human existence
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Violent desire
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Violent jealousy
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False religiosity
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Peace as proximity
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Pursuing peace as disciples of Aharon
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Truth and peace
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Erasing God’s name in the name of peace
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Learned people and shalom
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Ask for the peace of Jerusalem for the sake of the neighbor, for God’s sake
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The holiness of wholeness
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Religious views on suffering
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Mercy and its limits
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God, a merciful Father and a righteous Judge
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Chapter 4. Interreligious Teaching and Dialogue
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Interreligious co-teaching
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Hindu and Jewish perspectives on interreligious friendship
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Jewish and Buddhist thoughts
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Abraham and Ibrahim
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Jewish and Alevite light
102
Buber and the Dalai Lama
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Pascha and Pesach
108
Peace talks
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Finkenwerder
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Dr. Ramezani
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Chapter 5. Interreligious Theology
119
John Hick
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Dan Cohn-Sherbok
123
Michael S. Kogan
124
Theocentric Christians
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Multiple religious belonging
128
Chapter 6. Between Christians and Jews
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Openness in the Jewish tradition
131
Christian changes and Jewish responses
133
Nostra Aetate: a document of teshuva
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Jewish influence on Nostra Aetate
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Critical notes
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Dabru emet
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Jewish recognition of the legitimacy of Christianity
141
“Dabru emet” and religious Jews
141
Together towards the future
144
The American Jewish approach to Christianity and to Nostra Aetate
145
The inner-Jewish debate: Soloveitchik and Heschel
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Judaism and Christianity: different and related
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A psychological interpretation of Soloveitchik’s standpoint
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No religion is an island
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An outstretched hand to Christians
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Statement of orthodox rabbis on Christianity
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Jews reaching out to Christians: the case of Rosenzweig
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The rays or the eternal way
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Buber and interreligious theology
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The category of presence
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The art of translating
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Relation to Christianity
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Differences and trans-difference
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A link between Judaism and Christianity
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The antithetic view in "Two Types of Faith"
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Recent Jewish views on Jesus and Paul
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New Perspective on Paul
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Chapter 7. On the Urgency of Dialogical Hermeneutics
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Text and context
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The problem and the chance of religions
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The power of midrash
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Dialogical reading
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Lessing and beyond
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Constructive theology
194
Hospitality
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Excessive love for the own makes us forget the other
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Particularism and universalism
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From text to context and from context to text
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Religiosity as having the capacity to be ashamed
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Philosophy and interreligious dialogue
200
What texts mean and what they could mean
201
Identity and meta-identity
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A pioneer experiment of dialogical hermeneutics and the problem of naivety
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The problem of assimilatory alienation of the text and the priority of reading the text in its natural context
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Example
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“Trans-difference”
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Universal friendship
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Holy texts and human rights: combining the secular and the sacred
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Polemic and dialogical interpretations
210
Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index of Subjects
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Index of Names
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