encountering Christianity, Islam, and Eastern traditions /
Alan Brill
1st ed
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
xvii, 306 p. ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: -- Encountering World Religions * Comparing Religions * Christianity: Medieval Encounters and Modern Existential Tensions * Christianity: Covenant Theology * Christianity: Creating Comparisons * Islam: Prophetic Religions * Islam: Creating Comparisons and Modern Tensions * Eastern Religions: Classical Encounters * Eastern Religions: Creating Comparisons and New Encounters * Globalization
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"Judaism and World Religions is essential for a Jewish theological understanding of the various issues in encounters with the other major 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 religious positions. Brill outlines strategies for Jews who want to remain true to traditional sources while interacting with the diversity of the world's religions. With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization"--
"This companion volume to Judaism and Other Religions 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 of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism--that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths in practice. "--