Friends on the Way (Hardback) Abrahamic Dialogues

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Friends on the WayCondition: NewSubtitle: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary JudaismISBN-10: 0823228118EAN: 9780823228119ISBN: 9780823228119Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/15/2007Description: The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church’s efforts at dialogue across religions.Understanding and improving relations between the Church and the Jewish people has been a major focus of the Holy See and the Society of Jesus for many years. This book, the fruit of a major conference on the history, nature, and dynamics of relations between Jesuits and contemporary Jewish life, brings together a rich, wide-ranging selection of essays by Jesuit scholars and pastoral leaders, a leading Jewish studies scholar, and a leading rabbi. Drawing on a variety of approaches in historical and constructive theology, literary criticism, and spirituality, the contributors explore historical, philosophical, theological, cultural, and institutional themes—from Ignatian perspectives on Halakhic spirituality and the role played in Jesuit history by Jews forced to convert to Christianity to Jesuit perspectives on Hannah Arendt, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Harold Bloom.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Abrahamic DialoguesAuthor: No AuthorRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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