Encountering the Stranger

In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian, and six Muslim scholars--takes responsibility to examine their traditions' understandings of the stranger, the "other," and to identify ways that can bridge divisions and create greater harmony.

Leonard Grob is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College. The other contributors are Rachel N. Baum, Margaret Brearley, Britta Frede-Wenger, Henry Greenspan, Peter J. Haas, Riffat Hassan, Zayn Kassam, Henry F. Knight, Hubert G. Locke, Rochelle L. Millen, Khaleel Mohammed, David Patterson, Didier Pollefeyt, BŸlent Senay, Sana Tayyen, and Bassam Tibi.

Prologue: Trialogue Is the Way

Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

i. In The Shadow of the Holocaust: Safeguarding the Stranger

1 "You Shall Not Murder": A Foundation for Trialogue?

John K. Roth

2 Whom May I Kill?

Zayn Kassam

3"Where Is Your Brother?": Jewish Teachings on the "Stranger"

David Patterson

4?Canopies of Hospitality: Post-Shoah Christian Faith and Making Room for Others?

Henry F. Knight

5 The Place of Non-Muslims in the Islamic Concept of the "Other": The Need for Rethinking Islamic Tradition in the Pursuit

of Religious Pluralism

Bassam Tibi

6 The Jewish Roots of Emmanuel Levinas's

Metaphysics of Welcome

Leonard Grob



ii. The "Other" in the Scripture and Tradition: Valuing the Stranger

7 Encountering the Stranger in Classic Rabbinic Judaism

Peter J. Haas

8 Encountering the Stranger: Aspects of Medieval Christianity

Margaret Brearley

9Noah and Others: Pluralism in Ancient and Modern Judaism

Rochelle L. Millen

10Normative Islamic (Qur'anic) Teachings on Pluralism: Reflections on "The People of the Book"

Riffat Hassan

11 Reflexivity and Tawallî between Jews, Christians, and Muslims

Bülent Senay

12 Encountering the Other: Enemy or Stranger?

Hubert G. Locke



iii. The Hospitality of Pluralism: Welcoming the Stranger

13 Ora

Henry Greenspan

14Bearers of the Rings: Reflections on Christian Spirituality and the Theology of Religions

Britta Frede-Wenger

15 Litarafoo: The Dialogical Method

Sana Tayyen

16 Loving the Stranger: Intimacy between Jews and Non-Jews

Rachel N. Baum

17 When Certainty Becomes Immaterial

Khaleel Mohammed

18 Interreligious Dialogue beyond Absolutism, Relativism, and

Particularism: A Catholic Approach to Religious Diversity

Didier Pollefeyt

Epilogue: What Should Be Remembered?

Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

Selected Bibliography

Editors and Contributors

Index?