Interreligious Theology : : Its Value and Mooring in Modern Jewish Philosophy / / Ephraim Meir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Meir, Ephraim,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 p.)

This book is the first greater attempt to construct a dialogical theology from a Jewish point of view. It contributes to an emerging new theology that promotes the interrelatedness of religions in which encounter, openness, hospitality and permanent learning are central. The monograph is about the self and the other, inner and outer, own and strange; about borders and crossing borders, and about the sublime activities of passing and translating. Meir analyses and critically discusses the writings of great contemporary Jewish dialogical thinkers and argues that the values of interreligious theology are moored in their thoughts. In his view interreligious dialogue supposes attentive listening, humility, a critical attitude towards oneself and others, a good amount of self-relativism and humor. It is about proximity, dialogical reading, engagement and interconnectedness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jewish Dialogical Thinkers and Interreligiosity -- Chapter 2. Buddhist Thought and Heschel’s Jewish Philosophy: An Encounter -- Chapter 3. Successful Interreligiosity: A Case Study -- Chapter 4. Building Blocks for Interreligious Dialogue and Theology -- Chapter 5. The Buber-Rosenzweig Bible Translation as a Jewish Dialogical Enterprise -- Chapter 6. German-Jewish Religious Thinkers as Jews and Germans -- Chapter 7. On the Necessity of Trans-Difference -- Chapter 8. Constructing Religious Identity -- Chapter 9. Interreligious Exegesis: An Example -- Chapter 10. Dialogical Philosophy and Social Transformation -- Chapter 11. Interreligious Theology as a New Kind of Theology -- Chapter 12. Beyond the Boundaries -- Postscriptum -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names