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Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Jewish Justification

by David Novak. 194 pgs.

Contributors:

   David Novak

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1992

Subjects:

Philosophy, Jewish, Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History, Christianity And Other Religions--Judaism--History, Judaism--History Of Doctrines

	Introduction,	3
	Jewish Opposition to Dialogue,	3
	The Secular Context of Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today,	9
	Phenomenology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue,	14
	A Jewish Justification for the Dialogue: Methodology,	23
	1 The Doctrine of the Noahide Laws,	26
	A Border Concept,	26
	Historical Origins,	27
	Jewish Recognition of the Moral Independence of Gentiles,	34
	The Prohibition of Idolatry,	36
	The Universal Ban on Idolatry,	39
	2 The Status of Christianity in Medieval European
	Halakhah,	42
	Rabbenu Jacob Tam,	42
	Rabbi Menahem Ha-Meiri,	53
	3 Maimonides's View of Christianity,	57
	The Present Legal Status of Christianity,	57
	The Present Theological Status of Christianity,	59
	Christian Biblicism,	64
	Maimonides's Philosophical Constitution of Christianity for Judaism,	66
	The Appropriation of Maimonides's Theology,	67
	4 The Quest for the Jewish Jesus,	73
	The New Jesus of Nineteenth-Century Historicism,	73
	Interest in the New Jesus Among American Reform Jews,	76
	Martin Buber's Jesus,	80
	Law and History,	86
	5 Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Jewish-Christian
	Relationship,	93
	The Personal Background,	93
	The Background of Philosophy,	95
	From Revelation in General to Christian Revelation,	97
	A New Constitution of the Jewish-Christian Relationship,	99
	The Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity in the Present,	104
	Is Rosenzweig's Jewish-Christian Relationship a JewishChristian Dialogue?,	108
	6 A New Theology of Jewish-Christian Dialogue,	114
	The Covenanted Community and the World,	114
	The Logic of the Relation of the Singular and the General,	115
	Another Model for the Relation of the Singular and the General,	129
	Morality, Human Nature, and God,	138
	Theonomous Morality,	141
	Theonomous Morality and Scripture,	142
	The Primacy of Hearing in Scriptural Morality,	145
	The Challenge to Theonomous Morality from Kantian Morality,	148
	The Objections from Plato and Nietzsche to Theonomous Morality,	151
	The Final Redemption,	155
	Notes,	157
	Index,	187

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