Jewish-Christian dialogue : a Jewish justification / David Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novak, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths. This book is one of the first studies to examine the relationship from a philosophical and theological viewpoint. Carefully drawing on Jewish classical sources, Novak argues that there is actual justification for the new relationship between Judaism and Christianity from within Jewish religious tradition. He demonstrates that this new relationship is

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Jewish Opposition to Dialogue; The Secular Context of Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today; Phenomenology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue; A Jewish Justification for the Dialogue: Methodology; 1 The Doctrine of the Noahide Laws; A Border Concept; Historical Origins; Jewish Recognition of the Moral Independence of Gentiles; The Prohibition of Idolatry; The Universal Ban on Idolatry; 2 The Status of Christianity in Medieval European Halakhah; Rabbenu Jacob Tam; Rabbi Menahem Ha-Meiri; 3 Maimonides's View of Christianity; The Present Legal Status of Christianity

The Present Theological Status of ChristianityChristian Biblicism; Maimonides's Philosophical Constitution of Christianity for Judaism; The Appropriation of Maimonides's Theology; 4 The Quest for the Jewish Jesus; The New Jesus of Nineteenth-Century Historicism; Interest in the New Jesus Among American Reform Jews; Martin Buber's Jesus; Law and History; 5 Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Jewish-Christian Relationship; The Personal Background; The Background of Philosophy; From Revelation in General to Christian Revelation; A New Constitution of the Jewish-Christian Relationship

The Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity in the PresentIs Rosenzweig's Jewish-Christian Relationship a Jewish-Christian Dialogue?; 6 A New Theology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue; The Covenanted Community and the World; The Logic of the Relation of the Singular and the General; Another Model for the Relation of the Singular and the General; Morality, Human Nature, and God; Theonomous Morality; Theonomous Morality and Scripture; The Primacy of Hearing in Scriptural Morality; The Challenge to Theonomous Morality from Kantian Morality

The Objections from Plato and Nietzsche to Theonomous MoralityThe Final Redemption; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786610533503

1-280-53350-1

0-19-536098-2

0-19-802176-3

OCLC:

609832020