Religious Truth

Towards a Jewish Theology of Religions

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2024
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Verlag)
978-1-80207-191-7 (ISBN)

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Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers. Accordingly, understanding what we mean by ‘truth’ is a key challenge to interreligious collaboration. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars, consider what is meant by truth in classical and contemporary Jewish thought, and explore how making the notion of truth more nuanced can enable interfaith dialogue. Their essays take a range of approaches: some focus on philosophy proper, others on the intersection with the history of ideas, while others engage with the history of Jewish mysticism and thought. Together they open up the notion of truth in Jewish religious discourse and suggest ways in which upholding a notion of one’s religion as true may be reconciled with an appreciation of other faiths.

By combining philosophical and theological thinking with concrete case studies, and discussion of precedents and textual resources within Judaism, the volume proposes new interpretations of the concept of truth, going beyond traditional exclusivist uses of the term. A key aim is to help Jews seeking dialogue with other religions to do so while remaining true to their own faith tradition: in pursuit of this, the volume concludes with suggestions of how the ideas presented can be applied in practice.

CONTRIBUTORS: Cass Fisher, Jerome Yehuda Gellman, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green, Stanislaw Krajewski, Tamar Ross

Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. He is the author of Same God, Other God, Judaism, Hinduism and the Problem of Idolatry (2016), Religious Genius: Appreciating Outstanding Individuals Across Traditions (2017), Luther the Antisemite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective (2018), and Coronaspection: World Religious Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 (2020), and the editor of Covenant and World Religions: Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism (Littman Library, 2024).

Introduction. The Scope of Religious Truth: Project Overview - Alon Goshen-Gottstein

1. Old-Fashioned Truth, Telic Truth, and Interreligious Understanding - Jerome Yehuda Gellman

2. History and Truth in Religion - Stanislaw Krajewski

3. The Cosmic Eye and Its Pupil: Divine Perfection and the Mediation of Universal and Particular Truth in Rabbinic Theology - Cass Fisher

4. Da’at: Universalizing a Hasidic Value - Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green

5. The Truth Beyond and Beyond Truth: Religious Truth in Teachings of the Breslav Tradition and Their Contemporary Interreligious Application - Alon Goshen-Gottstein

6. The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Statements: Rabbi A. I. Kook and Postmodernism - Tamar Ross

Religious Truth: A Process Summary - Alon Goshen-Gottstein

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Notes on the Contributors

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-80207-191-1 / 1802071911
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-191-7 / 9781802071917
Zustand	Neuware