Variations on the messianic theme a case study of interfaith dialogue /
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Judaism and Jewish life
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10509021 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Confronting the impasse
- The impasse
- Entering the Jewish-Christian dialogue
- Introduction: Facing the past : Hoshoah as the great divide
- Present repentance : documents of the church
- Roman Catholic documents
- World Council of Churches documents
- Lutheran documents
- Other North American documents
- Dialogue as meta-framework
- Initial Christian attempts to approach Jesus as Jew
- 1965-1974
- Faith and fratricide
- Conclusion: The dialogue at an impasse
- Exploring some christological paths
- Introduction: Urgency of the question
- John Pawlikowski : Jesus in the pharisaic context
- Paul van Buren : Christ in the Jewish context
- Rosemary Ruether : humanity as the collective Messiah
- Conclusion: Still at an impasse
- A way forward
- Examining the radical empirical method
- Choosing context as primary
- William James
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Empirical theology
- Bernard Lee's appropriation of empiricism
- Lee's retrieval of the Hebraic context : a critique
- Mapping some variations on the messianic theme
- Introduction: Contextualizing concepts
- The Jewish origin and development of the messianic concept
- The Christian shift and development of the messianic concept
- The messianic concept in context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue
- Among Jews
- Among Christians
- Conclusion: A way forward?
- Conclusion: Discerning paths past, present and future.