Becoming Interreligious (eBook)

Towards a Dialogical Theology from a Jewish Vantage Point

Ephraim Meir (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
248 Seiten
Waxmann Verlag GmbH
978-3-8309-8080-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Book Cover 1
Imprint 4
Table of Contents 5
Introduction 9
Chapter 1. The Necessity and Challenge of Interreligiosity 13
Choice 13
New values 14
A world-centered religiosity 14
The question of belonging 17
A different mindset: com-passion with others 18
“Trans-difference” 19
The transcendent 20
Uniqueness, communication and “trans-difference” 21
Distinctiveness and covenantality 23
Inspiration from Buber and Levinas 25
The other in Levinas’s ethical metaphysics 26
Plural society, religion and redemption of the subject 33
Remedies 35
Interreligious theology 36
A theology in touch with reality 37
Conditions for dialogue 41
Chapter 2. Hassidic Ingredients for Interreligiosity 49
Everyone is called 50
Everyone has his own way 51
A united soul 53
Start with yourself 54
Chapter 3. Violence and Peace in Religions 59
The violent side of human existence 60
Violent desire 60
Violent jealousy 60
False religiosity 61
Peace as proximity 62
Pursuing peace as disciples of Aharon 62
Truth and peace 63
Erasing God’s name in the name of peace 64
Learned people and shalom 64
Ask for the peace of Jerusalem for the sake of the neighbor, for God’s sake 65
The holiness of wholeness 65
Israeli-Palestinian conflict 68
Religious views on suffering 71
Mercy and its limits 77
God, a merciful Father and a righteous Judge 81
Chapter 4. Interreligious Teaching and Dialogue 85
Interreligious co-teaching 85
Hindu and Jewish perspectives on interreligious friendship 86
Jewish and Buddhist thoughts 91
Abraham and Ibrahim 97
Jewish and Alevite light 102
Buber and the Dalai Lama 104
Pascha and Pesach 108
Peace talks 112
Finkenwerder 113
Dr. Ramezani 115
Chapter 5. Interreligious Theology 119
John Hick 121
Dan Cohn-Sherbok 123
Michael S. Kogan 124
Theocentric Christians 125
Multiple religious belonging 128
Chapter 6. Between Christians and Jews 131
Openness in the Jewish tradition 131
Christian changes and Jewish responses 133
Nostra Aetate: a document of teshuva 133
Jewish influence on Nostra Aetate 135
Critical notes 137
Dabru emet 140
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 147
Judaism and Christianity: different and related 150
A psychological interpretation of Soloveitchik’s standpoint 151
No religion is an island 152
An outstretched hand to Christians 153
Statement of orthodox rabbis on Christianity 154
Jews reaching out to Christians: the case of Rosenzweig 155
The rays or the eternal way 156
Buber and interreligious theology 164
The category of presence 164
The art of translating 166
Relation to Christianity 167
Differences and trans-difference 169
A link between Judaism and Christianity 170
The antithetic view in "Two Types of Faith" 171
Recent Jewish views on Jesus and Paul 179
New Perspective on Paul 182
Chapter 7. On the Urgency of Dialogical Hermeneutics 187
Text and context 191
The problem and the chance of religions 191
The power of midrash 193
Dialogical reading 193
Lessing and beyond 194
Constructive theology 194
Hospitality 195
Excessive love for the own makes us forget the other 196
Particularism and universalism 197
From text to context and from context to text 198
Religiosity as having the capacity to be ashamed 199
Philosophy and interreligious dialogue 200
What texts mean and what they could mean 201
Identity and meta-identity 202
A pioneer experiment of dialogical hermeneutics and the problem of naivety 202
The problem of assimilatory alienation of the text and the priority of reading the text in its natural context 204
Example 205
“Trans-difference” 207
Universal friendship 208
Holy texts and human rights: combining the secular and the sacred 209
Polemic and dialogical interpretations 210
Conclusion 223
Bibliography 231
Index of Subjects 243
Index of Names 246

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 3-8309-8080-9 / 3830980809
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8309-8080-3 / 9783830980803