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The faithful frame
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Huber, Jane Wax, Rabbi Seth |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Book Name: Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals |
| Abstract | Religious leaders often guide their followers to turn their attention away from competing religious doctrines. Yet the philosopher Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, writes that for believing people or those involved in religious communities, “faith that confronts alternatives (alternative faiths, including unbelief) can be deeper and stronger.” Religious leaders and scholars committed to the value of interfaith engagement are exploring the implications of a two-year series of interfaith conversations and study between two faith communities that was based on engagement with Hebrew Scripture and the New Testament. The chapter explores the ways each community became cognizant of their rootedness in their own faith tradition, while engaging with religious ‘others’ to explore the insights that ultimately deepen ties across communal lines in the complex, urban world of Brooklyn, New York. The authors argue for the importance of listening to and hearing many voices, in contrast to the single viewpoint of the ‘public’ expert or faith leader. This chapter explores the ways how each community became cognizant of their rootedness in their own faith tradition, while engaging with religious 'others' to insights that ultimately deepen ties across communal lines in the complex, urban world of Brooklyn, New York. It also argues for the importance of listening to and hearing many voices, in contrast to the single viewpoint of the 'public' expert or faith leader. A primary motivating factor that led to facilitate interfaith study of Scripture was a belief in the value of exposing members of different religious communities to the diversity of interpretation within and across religious communities and that such exposure, following Miroslav Volf, serves to deepen one's religious engagement and one's own faith. The history of conflict and persecution that often attended theological and Scriptural exchange between Christian and Jewish communities seemed to weigh on participants as they approached study opportunities, suggesting a degree of uncertainty and sensitivity when approaching this work. |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2017-0-62550-8&isbn=9781351139120&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 131 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 120 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351139120-11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-06-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Religious Studies Scholars As Public Intellectuals Religion and Religious Studies Engagement Scripture Leader Religious Communities Diversity Interfaith Deepen |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
