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New and Notable
Recent Publications of Interest
(List posted in November 2002)
In an effort to help interested readers keep abreast of new publications in the disciplines that lie at the heart of the work of the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies, we offer a short list of recently-published books and brief descriptions of each book. These descriptions are not reviews: No positive or negative judgments are offered with regard to the books' contents.
Michael Barnes, S.J. Theology and the Dialogue of Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2002. This book joins the conversation concerning the place of inter-religious relations within the Church by offering a "theology of dialogue." Inter-religious relations is part of the theology of religions, a discipline that raises and reflects upon fundamental questions for people of faith in a post-modern pluralist world. How is one to practice his religious faith and, at the same time, respect the religious beliefs of people of different faiths? Is there a middle road between claiming exclusivism and giving in to relativism? Michael Barnes, S.J., critiques current think-ing and offers a theology based on the twin themes of welcome and hospitality. His vision of Christianity is as
a "school of faith," a faith community that both teaches and learns from the faith of others.If you would like to purchase this book, click here.
Markus Bockmuehl. Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. T&T Clark, 2000. In this book, Markus Bock-muehl addresses questions that grow out of nascent Christianity's approach to the commandments in the Church's Old Testament. Why were some of the com-mandments retained and other disregarded? Were there norms that were binding on the earliest Christians and,
if so, what made them binding and how did the Church articulate them? Were Christian ethics inherited or invented? Bockmuehl attempts to answer such questions through a careful biblical and historical examination of the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale that undergirded the ethics of Jesus, Paul, and the early Christian Church. His findings have implications both for the study of the New Testament and for Jewish-Christian relations.If you would like to purchase this book, click here.
Catherine Cornille, editor. Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity. Orbis Books, 2002. The essays in this book examine the growing phenomenon in the Western part our religiously plural world of people who consider themselves to be followers of more than one religion. Such people search for answers to life's fundamental questions in various religious traditions and attach themselves to the symbols and rituals of more than one faith. In so doing, they may identify themselves, for example, as partly Jewish and partly Christian, or even fully Christian and fully Bud-dhist. Contributing authors discuss various aspects of what is referred to as "hyphenated religious identity." Contributors include: Catherine Cornille; Jan Van Bragt; John B. Cobb, Jr.; Joseph S. O'Leary; Francis X. Clooney, S.J.; Jacques Dupuis, S.J.; Elisabeth J. Harris; Claude Geffré; Werner G. Jeanrond; and Raimon Panikkar.
If you would like to purchase this book, click here.
Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Reading the Women of the Bible. Schocken Books, 2002. In this work of biblical interpretation, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, scholar and feminist, explores the stories of women of the Bible,
both collectively and in their individuality, seeking to illuminate their experiences in a patriarchal society and their relevance for contemporary life and culture, and for women in today's world.
Tikva Frymer-Kensky is one of the authors of Dabru Emet and one of the editors of Christianity in Jewish Terms.If you would like to purchase this book, click here.
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