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Two Faiths, One Covenant?
Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other
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2004
Summary
Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the "old" and the "new" covenant, this shared spiritual patrimony has been the source of a type of violent sibling rivalry competing for the same paternal love and inherited entitlement. God, it seemed, had but one blessing to bestow. It could be given to either Jacob or Esau—but not both.
In the twenty-first century, however, Jews and Christians are challenged to reconsider their theological assumptions by two inescapable truths: the moral tragedy of the holocaust demands that Christian thinkers acknowledge the violent effects of theologically de-legitimizing Jews and Judaism, and the pervasive reality of cultural and religious pluralism calls both Christian and Jewish theologians to rethink the covenant in the presence of the Other. Two Faiths, One Covenant? Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other is a breakthrough work that embraces this contemporary challenge and charts a path toward fruitful interfaith dialogue. The Christian and Jewish theologians in this book explore the ways that both religions have understood the covenant in biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern religious writings and reflect on how the covenant can serve as a reservoir for a positive theological relationship between Christianity and Judaism—not merely one of non-belligerent tolerance, but of respect and theological pluralism, however limited.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-3228-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-6790-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
173
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1: Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians, and the Binding of Isaac No access
2: The Binding of Isaac: Hermeneutical Reflections No access
3: The Akedah and Covenant Today No access
4: The Covenant in Patristic and Medieval Christian Theology No access
5: The Covenant in Rabbinic Thought No access
6: The Covenant in Contemporary Ecclesial Documents No access
7: The Covenant in Recent Theological Statements No access
8: The Covenant and Religious Ethics Today No access
9: One God, Many Faiths: A Jewish Theology of Conventional Pluralism No access
10: Jews and Christians: Their Covenantal Relationship in the American Context No access
