Jewish Theology and World Religions

Jewish Theology and World Religions
Author: Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1909821055

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The contributors to this volume represent a range of disciplines and denominations within Judaism and share the conviction that articulating contemporary Jewish views of other world religions is an urgent objective for Judaism. Their essays show why a Jewish theology of world religions is a priority for Jewish thinkers and educators concerned with reinvigorating Judaism's contribution to the contemporary world and maintaining Jewish identity and continuity.

Encyclopedia of Judaism

Encyclopedia of Judaism
Author: Sara E. Karesh
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0816069824

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An illustrated A to Z reference containing over 800 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to the religion of Judaism.

Judaism and World Religions

Judaism and World Religions
Author: A. Brill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137013184

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Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths.

Judaism and Other Faiths

Judaism and Other Faiths
Author: D. Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1994-04-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230373062

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This pioneering study is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Judaism and the world's religions. After tracing the history of Jewish views of other religious traditions, the author formulates a new Jewish theology of religious pluralism. This is a vital source for all those who seek to understand Judaism among the universe of faiths.

Judaism and Other Religions

Judaism and Other Religions
Author: Alan Brill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-04-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0230105688

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With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization. He provides a fresh perspective on Biblical and Rabbinic texts, offering new ways of thinking about other faiths. In the majority of volume, he develops the categories of theology of religions for Jewish text and arranges the texts according classification widely used in interfaith work: inclusivist, exclusivist, universalist, and pluralist. Judaism and Other Religions is essential for a Jewish theological understanding of the various issues in encounters with other religions. With passion and clarity, Brill argues that in today's world of strong religious passions and intolerance, it is necessary to go beyond secular tolerance toward moderate and mediating religious positions.

Major World Religions

Major World Religions
Author: Lloyd V. J. Ridgeon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780415297967

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This book focuses upon those religions that continue to demand the attention of the Western world.

Take Judaism, for Example

Take Judaism, for Example
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2003-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1592443419

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Religious Truth

Religious Truth
Author: Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789627990

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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

Interreligious Theology

Interreligious Theology
Author: Ephraim Meir
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110430517

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
Author: Steven Kepnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108244157

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.