Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham [Paperback]

An important analysis of the ethics of proclaiming the Christian faith and the implications for the theology of Jewish-Christian relations.

This important book poses the question of whether Christian proclamation can be made ethically safe for the Jewish neighbour. Boesel assesses two major approaches to a Christian theology of Judaism - those exemplified by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Karl Barth. This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of systematics, ethics, and homiletics at the intersection of Jewish-Christian relations.GB'Chris Boesel's fairly recent book undertakes a renewed contemplation of Jewish and Christian relations, meriting a serious look at the two main culprits historically responsible for Christian imperialism: anti-Judaism and supersessionism. ... This is a provocative - though perhaps, in the end, slightly traditional - claim to make, though it is one that certainly deserves its retelling in a contemporary context.'Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I: An Introduction: The Problem and its Context
1. Is the Good News of Jesus Christ Bad News for the Jewish Neighbor?
2. Kierkegaard and Hegel on Abraham: The Openness and Complexity of the Modern Context

Part II: The Problem: A Theological Exemplar
3. The Problem, Part I: The Perfect Storm of Christological Interpretive Imperialism
4. The Problem, Part II: The Good News of the Gospel and the Bad News for the Children of Abraham

Part III: The Remedy: A Theological Exemplar
5. The Remedy, Part I: Dispersing the Perfect Storm
6. The Remedy, Part II: The Debt to Modernity - Interpretive Imperialism in a Higher Key
7. The Remedy, Part III: Abraham Must Die

Part IV: The Remedy as Problem, the Problem as Remedy
8. Postmodern Discernment and the Limits of the Ethical: The Way of Justice
9. The Problem as Remedy: An Interpretive Imperialism Without Weapons ?
10. Conclusion: Faith Seeking the Ethical

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