Christians & Jews in Dialogue

by Boys, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9781594731440
• ISBN10: 1594731446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-18
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

An engaging narrative and a blueprint for all of us interested in interreligious work, this provocative and absorbing book explores the friendship and working relationship that developed between Lee and Boys, a Jew and a Catholic, and their shared goal to prepare educational leaders in their communities to address the issues dividing Jews and Christians. Along with insightful reflections from their travels together to Asia, Israel and Auschwitz, Lee and Boys explain their transformative work of creating environments for Jewish and Christian educators to study together, engage in serious historical and theological issues, enter the dynamism of the other's religious tradition as embodied individuals, and stimulate new understanding of the other's as well as of their own religious tradition.

Author Biography

Sara S. Lee is director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Mary C. Boys is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
1. Jews and Christians: A Complicated Relationship	1	(17)
2. Sara's Story	18	(21)
3. Mary's Story	39	(24)
4. Interreligious Teaching and Learning: The Experience	63	(24)
5. Toward a Theory of Interreligious Teaching and Learning	87	(27)
6. After Auschwitz: Conversations in a Krakow Park	114	(25)
7. Jews, Christians, and the Land of Israel	139	(34)
8. Participants Speak: Testimony to the Power of Interreligious Learning	173	(5)
Notes	178	(23)
Appendix 1 "Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity (2000)"	201	(5)
Appendix 2 "A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People"	206	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	214	(3)
Index	217