In an age when ‘collisions of faith’ among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger–six Jewish, six Christian, and six Muslim scholars–takes responsibility to examine their traditions’ understandings of the stranger, the ‘other, ‘ and to identify ways that can bridge divisions and create greater harmony.
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Prologue: Trialogue Is the Way
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
i. In The Shadow of the Holocaust: Safeguarding the Stranger
1 ‘You Shall Not Murder’: A Foundation for Trialogue?
John K. Roth
2 Whom May I Kill?
Zayn Kassam
3’Where Is Your Brother?’: Jewish Teachings on the ‘Stranger’
David Patterson
4?Canopies of Hospitality: Post-Shoah Christian Faith and Making Room for Others?
Henry F. Knight
5 The Place of Non-Muslims in the Islamic Concept of the ‘Other’: The Need for Rethinking Islamic Tradition in the Pursuit
of Religious Pluralism
Bassam Tibi
6 The Jewish Roots of Emmanuel Levinas’s
Metaphysics of Welcome
Leonard Grob
ii. The ‘Other’ in the Scripture and Tradition: Valuing the Stranger
7 Encountering the Stranger in Classic Rabbinic Judaism
Peter J. Haas
8 Encountering the Stranger: Aspects of Medieval Christianity
Margaret Brearley
9Noah and Others: Pluralism in Ancient and Modern Judaism
Rochelle L. Millen
10Normative Islamic (Qur’anic) Teachings on Pluralism: Reflections on ‘The People of the Book’
Riffat Hassan
11 Reflexivity and Tawallî between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Bülent Senay
12 Encountering the Other: Enemy or Stranger?
Hubert G. Locke
iii. The Hospitality of Pluralism: Welcoming the Stranger
13 Ora
Henry Greenspan
14Bearers of the Rings: Reflections on Christian Spirituality and the Theology of Religions
Britta Frede-Wenger
15 Litarafoo: The Dialogical Method
Sana Tayyen
16 Loving the Stranger: Intimacy between Jews and Non-Jews
Rachel N. Baum
17 When Certainty Becomes Immaterial
Khaleel Mohammed
18 Interreligious Dialogue beyond Absolutism, Relativism, and
Particularism: A Catholic Approach to Religious Diversity
Didier Pollefeyt
Epilogue: What Should Be Remembered?
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
Selected Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index?