
Christians & Jews in Dialogue
Learning in the Presence of the Other
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Discover the Power of Dialogue to Heal Religious Division
How can members of different faith traditions approach each other with openness and respect? How can they confront the painful conflicts in their history and overcome theological misconceptions? For more than twenty years, Professors Mary C. Boys and Sara S. Lee have explored ways that Catholics and Jews might overcome mistrust and misunderstandings in order to promote commitment to religious pluralism.
At its best, interreligious dialogue entails not simply learning about the other from the safety of one's own faith community, but rather engaging in specific learning activities with members of the other faith—learning in the presence of the other. Drawing upon examples from their own experience, Boys and Lee lay out a framework for engaging the religious other in depth. With vision and insight, they discuss ways of fostering relationships among participants and with key texts, beliefs and practices of the other's tradition.
In this groundbreaking resource, they offer a guide for members of any faith tradition who want to move beyond the rhetoric of interfaith dialogue and into the demanding yet richly rewarding work of developing new understandings of the religious other—and of one's own tradition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Jews and Christians: A Complicated Relationship
- 2. Sara’s Story
- 3. Mary’s Story
- 4. Interreligious Teaching and Learning: The Experience
- 5. Toward a Theory of Interreligious Teaching and Learning
- 6. After Auschwitz: Conversations in a Krakow Park
- 7. Jews, Christians, and the Land of Israel
- 8. Participants Speak: Testimony to the Power of Interreligious Learning
- Notes
- Appendix 1 “Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity (2000)”
- Appendix 2 “A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People”
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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