Christians & Jews in Dialogue

by Boys, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9781594732546
• ISBN10: 159473254X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

How can members of different faith traditions approach each other with openness and respect? How can they confront the painful conflicts in their history and overcome theological misconceptions? For more than twenty years, Mary C. Boys and Sara S. Lee have explored ways that Catholics and Jews might overcome mistrust and misunderstandings in order to promote commitment to religious pluralism.At its best, interreligious dialogue entails not simply learning about the other from the safety of one?s own faith community, but rather engaging in specific learning activities with members of the other faith. Drawing upon examples from their own experience, Boys and Lee lay out a framework for engaging the religious other in depth. With vision and insight, they discuss ways of fostering relationships among participants and with key texts, beliefs and practices of the other?s tradition.This resource is a guide for members of any faith tradition who want to move beyond the rhetoric of interfaith dialogue and into the demanding yet richly rewarding work of developing new understandings of the religious other?and of one?s own tradition.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Jews and Christians: A Complicated Relationship	p. 1
Sara's Story	p. 18
Mary's Story	p. 39
Interreligious Teaching and Learning: The Experience	p. 63
Toward a Theory of Interreligious Teaching and Learning	p. 87
After Auschwitz: Conversations in a Krakow Park	p. 114
Jews, Christians, and the Land of Israel	p. 139
Participants Speak: Testimony to the Power of Interreligious Learning	p. 173
Notes	p. 178
"Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity (2000)"	p. 201
"A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People"	p. 206
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 214
Index	p. 217
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