Christians & Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other
Discover the Power of Dialogue to Heal Religious Division
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, Professors 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—learning in the presence of the other. 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.
In this groundbreaking resource, they offer 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.
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Book details
- Author
- Mary Boys
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Religion › Comparative Religion
- Topics
- interfaith dialogue · Christianity and Judaism · religious pluralism · Catholic-Jewish relations · comparative religion · interreligious learning · theological reconciliation
- ISBN-13
- 9781594732546
About the author
MARY C. BOYS is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a position she has held since 1994. Her recent books include Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other, Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding, and Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman’s Experience.
Boys holds honorary doctorates from Gratz College, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Catholic Theological Union, and Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and previously taught for seventeen years at Boston College.
Mary lives in New York City.