Beyond the Walls

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein on the Significance of Empathy for Jewish-Christian Dialogue
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-992502-5
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Joseph Palmisano explores the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Drawing on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) and Edith Stein (1891-1942), he develops a phenomenological category of empathy defined as a way of ''re-membering'' oneself with the religious other.

Palmisano follows Heschel's and Stein's personal and spiritual journeys through the darkest years of Nazi Germany. He shows that Heschel's call to Christian interlocutors for a return to God is an ecumenical call to humanity to embrace perceived others: a call to live life as a response to God's pathos. This call finds a prophetic answer in Edith Stein's witness of empathy with regard to the Holocaust. Stein, a Catholic, creates a dialectical bridge with the Jewish 'other,' neither distancing herself nor denying her Jewish roots. Stein's simultaneously Jewish and Christian fidelity is a model for interreligious relations. It is also a challenge to Catholics to remember their religion's Jewish heritage through new categories of witnessing and belonging with others.

Beyond the Walls is a critical contribution to the fostering of interreligious understanding, offering both a model of the ideal Jewish-Christian relationship in Heschel and Stein and criteria with which to evaluate contemporary initiatives and controversies concerning interreligious dialogue.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars concerned with interreligious dialogue, Jewish or Christian theology, the Holocaust

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmisano, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Chapter 1 Towards Pathos: Preliminary Considerations

- Chapter 2 Towards a Hermeneutics of Empathy: Mystery, Being, Subjectivity

- Chapter 3 Pathos and Sympathy

- Chapter 4 On Empathy

- Chapter 5 A Finite and Eternal Being: Conversion and Carmel

- Chapter 6 Beyond the Walls of Carmel

- Chapter 7 Stein's Kenosis: Reimaging Witnessing

- Towards a Conclusion: Empathic Witnessing as Interreligious Dialogue

- Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Inaugural Rev Michael Hurley SJ post-doctoral research and teaching fellow, Irish School of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin