Dynamics of difference : Christianity and Alterity

Includes index.

Table of ContentsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Open to the Other. The Dynamics of Difference in Hermeneutical Theology - Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford, UKI Biblical Others and Other BiblesMoses: The Significant Other - Brian Klug, University of Oxford, UKJoseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other - Andrew D. H. Mayes, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandBecoming ‘Another’: Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel - Mary Marshall, University of Oxford, UKThe Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-Bad Text Hermeneutics - Jesper Svartvik, Lund University, SwedenThe Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum - Olivier Riaudel, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium2 Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour - Arne Grøn, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkThe Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart - Dietmar Mieth, University of Tübingen, GermanyThe Value of the Other - Tage Kurtén, Åbo Akademi University, FinlandLove of God and Love of One Another According to Paul - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USAPaul Ricoeur as Other - Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University, FinlandThe Other of Dialectic and Dialogue - David Tracy, University of Chicago, USA Encountering the Other: The Concept of Encounter in Philosophy and Theology - Matthias Petzoldt, University of Leipzig, GermanyIn-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love - Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark3 Theological Others and Other TheologiesThe Other Language: Religion in Modernity - Knut Wenzel, Goethe-University Frankfurt, GermanyLaughing at the Other - Ola Sigurdson, University of Gothenburg, SwedenForeignness as Focal Point of Otherness - Pierre Bühler, University of Zürich, SwitzerlandSexual Difference in Christian Doctrine and Symbolism: Historical Impact and Feminist Critique - Kari Elisabeth Børresen, University of Oslo, NorwayThe Other on the Cross - Anne-Louise Eriksson, Stockholm School of Theology, SwedenThe Other Without and the Other Within - George Newlands, University of Glasgow, UKAugustinian Love - Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UKWho loves? Who is loved? The Problem of the Collective Personality - Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UKGegenüber Revisited: ‘Thirding-as-Othering’ in Karl Barth’s Concept of Space - Kjetil Hafstad, University of Oslo, Norway4 Religious Others and Other Religions Empathy and Otherness in Interreligious Dialogue - Catherine Cornille, Boston College, USAIn the Presence of God – Making Room for the Other: An Autobiographical Approach - Karl-Josef Kuschel, University of Tübingen, GermanyRelated Rivals: How Christians and Muslims Might Relate to One Another - Susanne Heine, University of Vienna, Austria‘Who Practices Hospitality Entertains God Himself’ - Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh, UKBeyond Indifference: Religious Traditions as Resources for Interreligious Toleration - Christoph Schwöbel, University of Tübingen, Germany5 God as Other and the Otherness of GodLoved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love - David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UKThe Other and the Interruption of Love - Lieven Boeve, Catholic University of Leuven, BelgiumThe Middle English Poem Pearl: A Study in the Unfamiliar - Santha Bhattacharji, University of Oxford, UKFinding the Otherness of God in Literature - David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UKIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names