Dynamics of Difference Christianity and Alterity: A Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Biblical Others and other bibles Moses:The significant other .17 Joseph in Egypt...........25 Becoming another : Nocodemus and his relationships in the Fourth Gospel ...33 The bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-bad Text.......41 The alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum ...........51 2. Philosophical Others and other Philosophies Ethics of Vision : Seeing the other as Neighbour .....63 The outer and inner constitution of Human dignity in Meister Eckhart .........71 The value of the Other ......79 Love of God and love of One another According to Paul .................87 Paul Ricoeur as other ...95 The other of Dialectic and Dialogue .....105 Encountering the other: The concept of Encounter in Philosophy and theology........115 In-Between subjectivity and alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and theology of love ...........125 3. Theological Others and Other Theologies The other languages : Religion in Modernity ........137 Laughing at the other .145 Foreignness as focal point of Otherness ...153 Sexual Differences in christian doctrine and symbolism................161 The other on the cross ........173 The other within and the other without .............181 Augustinian love ........189 Who loves? who is Loved? the problem of the Collective personality ...........199 Gegenuber revisited: Thirding -as-othering in karl barth`s concept of space ..........209 4. Religious others and other religions Empathy and otherness in Interreligious dialogue...............221 In the presence of God.............231 Related rivals:How christians and muslims might relate to one Another.................239 Who practices hospitality entertains God Himself..................247 Beyond indifference: Religious traditions as Resources for Interreligious toleration ......................255 5. Gos as other and the Otherness of God Loved by the other: Creatio ex Nihilo as an act of divine love.....................265 The other and the interruption of love ................275 The middle English poem pearl...............285 Finding the otherness of god in Literature .........293