Synopses & Reviews
This compilation investigates the challenge of alterity for Christianity. Blurring disciplinary boundaries, more than 30 contributors from 10 countries track the dynamics of difference driven by the encounter with the self as other, the other as other, and God as the radical other. Who is my other? What do I encounter when I encounter my other? And what responses and responsibilities does the encounter with my other evoke? Grappling with questions like these, the contributions analyse alterity in the Bible, alterity in philosophy, alterity in theology, alterity in interreligious dialogues, and the radical alterity of God. Ultimately, this compilation aims to advocate openness to the other as a necessity for both religion and reflections on religion.
Synopsis
This Festschrift in honour of Werner G. Jeanrond, currently Master of St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, UK, investigates the challenge of alterity for Christianity, exploring and elaborating on this core concern in Jeanrond's hermeneutical theology. Blurring disciplinary boundaries, more than thirty of Jeanrond's colleagues and companions from ten countries track the dynamics of difference driven by the encounter with the self as other, the other as other, and God as the radical other.
Who is my other? What do I encounter when I encounter my other? And what responses and responsibilities does the encounter with my other evoke? Grappling with questions like these, the contributions to this compilation analyse alterity in the Bible, alterity in philosophy, alterity in theology, alterity in interreligious dialogues, and the radical alterity of God. Tying in with Jeanrond's explorations of the many faces and facets of the other, this Festschrift ultimately aims to advocate openness to the other as a necessity for both religion and reflections on religion.
Synopsis
Who is my other? What do I encounter when I encounter my other? And what responses and responsibilities does the encounter with my other evoke? Grappling with questions like these, the contributions to this compilation analyse alterity in the Bible, alterity in philosophy, alterity in theology, alterity in interreligious dialogues, and the radical alterity of God. Tying in with Jeanrond's explorations of the many faces and facets of the other, this work ultimately aims to advocate openness to the other as a necessity for both religion and reflections on religion.
About the Author
Ulrich Schmiedel is DPhil Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford, UK.
James M. Matarazzo, Jr, is DPhil Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford, UK.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Open to the Other. The Dynamics of Difference in Hermeneutical Theology - Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford, UK
I Biblical Others and Other Bibles
Moses: The Significant Other - Brian Klug, University of Oxford, UK
Joseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other - Andrew D. H. Mayes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Becoming 'Another': Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel - Mary Marshall, University of Oxford, UK
The Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-Bad Text Hermeneutics - Jesper Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden
The Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum - Olivier Riaudel, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
2 Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies
Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour - Arne Grøn, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart - Dietmar Mieth, University of Tübingen, Germany
The Value of the Other - Tage Kurtén, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Love of God and Love of One Another According to Paul - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA
Paul Ricoeur as Other - Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
The Other of Dialectic and Dialogue - David Tracy, University of Chicago, USA
Encountering the Other: The Concept of Encounter in Philosophy and Theology - Matthias Petzoldt, University of Leipzig, Germany
In-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love - Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Theological Others and Other Theologies
The Other