Friends on the Way : : Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism / / Thomas Michel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Michel, Thomas,
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Chorin, Rabbi Tovia,; Bernauer, James,; Du Brul, Peter,; Kasimow, Harold,; Michel, Thomas,; Moore, Donald,; Neuhaus, David M.,; Obirek, Stanisław,; Rastoin, Marc,; Rutishauser, Christian M.,; Sonnet, Jean-Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Abrahamic Dialogues
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church’s efforts at dialogue across religions. Understanding and improving relations between the Church and the Jewish people has been a major focus of the Holy See and the Society of Jesus for many years. This book, the fruit of a major conference on the history, nature, and dynamics of relations between Jesuits and contemporary Jewish life, brings together a rich, wide-ranging selection of essays by Jesuit scholars and pastoral leaders, a leading Jewish studies scholar, and a leading rabbi. Drawing on a variety of approaches in historical and constructive theology, literary criticism, and spirituality, the contributors explore historical, philosophical, theological, cultural, and institutional themes—from Ignatian perspectives on Halakhic spirituality and the role played in Jesuit history by Jews forced to convert to Christianity to Jesuit perspectives on Hannah Arendt, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Harold Bloom.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- From Windfall to Fall: The Conversos in the Society of Jesus -- Reflections on the Dialogue between Jew and Non-Jew in the Bible and in Rabbinic Literature -- The Goal of the Ignatian Exercises and Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Spirituality -- An Ignatian Perspective on Contemporary Jewish Spirituality -- The Jewish Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a Challenge for Catholic Theology -- The Genius and the Wisdom of Harold Bloom -- From Midrash to Rashi to Contemporary Narrative Exegesis (R. Alter, M. Sternberg, et al.): Continuity in Jewish Biblical Reading -- Inscribe the New in the Old: Inner-Biblical Exegesis (M. Fishbane) and the Hermeneutics of Innovation (B. Levinson) -- A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt -- What Might Israelis and Jews Learn about Christians and Christianity at Yad Vashem? -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index