Interfaith Dialogue in Post-Secular Societies: Obstacles, Hopes, and Lessons from Jewish-Christian Dialogue
摘要
Charting the deeply encouraging changes in Jewish-Christian relations since the Shoah (focusing on five key texts—“The Ten Points of Seelisberg”, Nostra Aetate, “Dabru Emet”, “The 12 Points of Berlin”, and “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven”), I show how once bitter rivals have made deep and lasting strides in partnership, mutual trust, and stronger theological and social connections. While touching on these five key texts chronologically, I pair them with five key values that these dialogues hone and develop which can help regenerate and heal the kinds of ruptures that fracture our public square. Such values include attentiveness, humility, mercifulness, teachability, and most importantly, practicing the preferential option for the poor and marginalized.