Dynamics of Difference: Christianity and Alterity: A Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond

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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. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface Contributors (Instead of the) Introduction: Open to the Other – The Dynamics of Difference in Werner G. Jeanrond’s Hermeneutical Theology Part I: Biblical Others and Other Bibles 1. Moses: The Significant Other 2. Joseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other 3. Becoming ‘Another’: Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel 4. The Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the ‘Good Text-Bad Text’ Hermeneutics 5. The Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum Part II: Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies 6. Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour 7. The Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart 8. The Value of the Other 9. Love of God and Love of One Another According to Paul 10. Paul Ricoeur as Other 11. The Other of Dialectic and Dialogue 12. Encountering the Other: The Concept of Encounter in Philosophy and Theology 13. In-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love Part III: Theological Others and Other Theologies 14. The Other Language: Religion in Modernity 15. Laughing at the Other 16. Foreignness as Focal Point of Otherness 17. Sexual Difference in Christian Doctrine and Symbolism: Historical Impact and Feminist Critique 18. The Other on the Cross 19. The Other Within and the Other Without 20. Augustinian Love 21. Who loves? Who is loved? The Problem of the Collective Personality 22. Gegenüber Revisited: ‘Thirding-as-Othering’ in Karl Barth’s Concept of Space Part IV: Religious Others and Other Religions 23. Empathy and Otherness in Interreligious Dialogue 24. In the Presence of God – Making Room for the Other: An Autobiographical Approach 25. Related Rivals: How Christians and Muslims Might Relate to One Another 26. ‘Who Practices Hospitality Entertains God Himself ’ 27. Beyond Indifference: Religious Traditions as Resources for Interreligious Toleration Part V: God as Other and the Otherness of God 28. Loved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love 29. The Other and the Interruption of Love 30. The Middle English Poem Pearl: A Study in the Unfamiliar 31. Finding the Otherness of God in Literature Index of Subjects Index of Names