Meir Becoming Interreligious

Towards a Dialogical Theology from a Jewish Vantage Point
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8080-3
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
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E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

The present volume contains reflections on the desirability and even the necessity of the interreligious dialogue and of dialogical theology in an increasingly globalized world. A kaleidoscope of various religions, each with its own specificity and cultural singularity, characterizes plural, open societies. In this constellation, encounters with religious others allow us to reimagine and reconfigure our religious singularity. In the process of becoming interreligious, one dynamically and creatively shapes one's particularity in communication with others. The nightmare of a homogeneous society where the other has no place at all receives its alternative in the vision of a growing community in which one's cultural and religious identity is formed, affirmed, and transformed in dialogue with others.

Meir, Ephraim, Prof. Dr. ist Professor für moderne jüdische Philosophie an der Bar-Ilan Universität in Ramat Gan, Israel, und arbeitet seit 2014 regelmäßig zweimal im Jahr als 'Emmanuel-Lévinas-Gastprofessor für jüdische Dialogstudien und interreligiöse Theologie' an der Akademie der Weltreligionen der Universität Hamburg. Schwerpunkte: moderne jüdische Philosophie, dialogisches Denken, interreligiöse Theologie.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meir, Ephraim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Book Cover;1
1.1;Imprint;4
1.2;Table of Contents;5
2;Introduction;9
3;Chapter 1. The Necessity and Challenge of Interreligiosity;13
3.1;Choice;13
3.2;New values;14
3.3;A world-centered religiosity;14
3.4;The question of belonging;17
3.5;A different mindset: com-passion with others;18
3.6;“Trans-difference”;19
3.7;The transcendent;20
3.8;Uniqueness, communication and “trans-difference”;21
3.9;Distinctiveness and covenantality;23
3.10;Inspiration from Buber and Levinas;25
3.11;The other in Levinas’s ethical metaphysics;26
3.12;Plural society, religion and redemption of the subject;33
3.13;Remedies;35
3.14;Interreligious theology;36
3.15;A theology in touch with reality;37
3.16;Conditions for dialogue;41
4;Chapter 2. Hassidic Ingredients for Interreligiosity;49
4.1;Everyone is called;50
4.2;Everyone has his own way;51
4.3;A united soul;53
4.4;Start with yourself;54
5;Chapter 3. Violence and Peace in Religions;59
5.1;The violent side of human existence;60
5.1.1;Violent desire;60
5.1.2;Violent jealousy;60
5.1.3;False religiosity;61
5.2;Peace as proximity;62
5.2.1;Pursuing peace as disciples of Aharon;62
5.2.2;Truth and peace;63
5.2.3;Erasing God’s name in the name of peace;64
5.2.4;Learned people and shalom;64
5.2.5;Ask for the peace of Jerusalem for the sake of the neighbor, for God’s sake;65
5.2.6;The holiness of wholeness;65
5.3;Israeli-Palestinian conflict;68
5.4;Religious views on suffering;71
5.5;Mercy and its limits;77
5.6;God, a merciful Father and a righteous Judge;81
6;Chapter 4. Interreligious Teaching and Dialogue;85
6.1;Interreligious co-teaching;85
6.1.1;Hindu and Jewish perspectives on interreligious friendship;86
6.1.2;Jewish and Buddhist thoughts;91
6.1.3;Abraham and Ibrahim;97
6.1.4;Jewish and Alevite light;102
6.1.5;Buber and the Dalai Lama;104
6.1.6;Pascha and Pesach;108
6.2;Peace talks;112
6.2.1;Finkenwerder;113
6.2.2;Dr. Ramezani;115
7;Chapter 5. Interreligious Theology;119
7.1;John Hick;121
7.2;Dan Cohn-Sherbok;123
7.3;Michael S. Kogan;124
7.4;Theocentric Christians;125
7.5;Multiple religious belonging;128
8;Chapter 6. Between Christians and Jews;131
8.1;Openness in the Jewish tradition;131
8.2;Christian changes and Jewish responses;133
8.2.1;Nostra Aetate: a document of teshuva;133
8.2.2;Jewish influence on Nostra Aetate;135
8.2.3;Critical notes;137
8.2.4;Dabru emet;140
8.2.5;Jewish recognition of the legitimacy of Christianity;141
8.2.6;“Dabru emet” and religious Jews;141
8.2.7;Together towards the future;144
8.2.8;The American Jewish approach to Christianity and to Nostra Aetate;145
8.2.9;The inner-Jewish debate: Soloveitchik and Heschel;147
8.2.10;Judaism and Christianity: different and related;150
8.2.11;A psychological interpretation of Soloveitchik’s standpoint;151
8.2.12;No religion is an island;152
8.2.13;An outstretched hand to Christians;153
8.2.14;Statement of orthodox rabbis on Christianity;154
8.3;Jews reaching out to Christians: the case of Rosenzweig;155
8.3.1;The rays or the eternal way;156
8.4;Buber and interreligious theology;164
8.4.1;The category of presence;164
8.4.2;The art of translating;166
8.4.3;Relation to Christianity;167
8.4.4;Differences and trans-difference;169
8.4.5;A link between Judaism and Christianity;170
8.4.6;The antithetic view in "Two Types of Faith";171
8.5;Recent Jewish views on Jesus and Paul;179
8.5.1;New Perspective on Paul;182
9;Chapter 7. On the Urgency of Dialogical Hermeneutics;187
9.1;Text and context;191
9.2;The problem and the chance of religions;191
9.3;The power of midrash;193
9.4;Dialogical reading;193
9.5;Lessing and beyond;194
9.6;Constructive theology;194
9.7;Hospitality;195
9.8;Excessive love for the own makes us forget the other;196
9.9;Particularism and universalism;197
9.10;From text to context and from context to text;198
9.11;Religiosity as having the capacity to be ashamed;199
9.12;Philosophy and interreligious dialogue;200
9.13;What texts mean and what they could mean;201
9.14;Identity and meta-identity;202
9.15;A pioneer experiment of dialogical hermeneutics and the problem of naivety;202
9.16;The problem of assimilatory alienation of the text and the priority of reading the text in its natural context;204
9.17;Example;205
9.18;“Trans-difference”;207
9.19;Universal friendship;208
9.20;Holy texts and human rights: combining the secular and the sacred;209
9.21;Polemic and dialogical interpretations;210
10;Conclusion;223
11;Bibliography;231
12;Index of Subjects;243
13;Index of Names;246