Dynamics of Difference: Christianity and Alterity: A Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond (Studies in Theology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567671836 ISBN 13: 9780567671837

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2016

Synopsis

This Festschrift in honour of Werner G. Jeanrond, currently Master of St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, UK, investigates the challenge of alterity for Christianity, exploring and elaborating on this core concern in Jeanrond's hermeneutical theology. Blurring disciplinary boundaries, more than thirty of Jeanrond's colleagues and companions from ten 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 to this compilation analyse alterity in the Bible, alterity in philosophy, alterity in theology, alterity in interreligious dialogues, and the radical alterity of God. Tying in with Jeanrond's explorations of the many faces and facets of the other, this Festschrift ultimately aims to advocate openness to the other as a necessity for both religion and reflections on religion.

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About the Authors

Ulrich Schmiedel is Senior Lecturer in Theology, Politics and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also the Co-Director of Edinburgh's Centre for Theology and Public Issues and has written widely on public and political theology.

James M. Matarazzo, Jr, is DPhil Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567671836
• ISBN 13: 9780567671837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Schmiedel Ulrich, Matarazzo James