1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798735203321

Autore

Homolka Walter

Titolo

Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today / / by Walter Homolka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-33174-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Collana

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, , 1388-2074 ; ; Volume 30

Disciplina

232.9/06

Soggetti

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History -- 2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums -- 3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus’s Wirkungsgeschichte -- 4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems -- Conclusion: Implications and Future Perspectives -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777923603321

Autore

Biderman Shlomo

Titolo

Crossing horizons [[electronic resource] ] : world, self, and language in Indian and Western thought / / Shlomo Biderman ; translated by Ornan Rotem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-79633-X

9786612796333

0-231-51159-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RotemOrnan

Disciplina

181/.4

Soggetti

Philosophy, Comparative

Philosophy, Indic

Self (Philosophy)

Transcendence (Philosophy)

Language and languages - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-346) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Far and Beyond -- 2. Transcendence in two cultures -- 3. My-Self -- 4.No-Self -- 5. "It's All in the Mind" -- Notes -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Shlomo Biderman examines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. He turns to a rich and varied collection of primary sources: the Rg Veda, the Upanishads, and texts by the Buddhist philosophers Någårjuna and Vasubandhu, among others. In studying the West, Biderman considers the Bible and its commentaries, the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, and Derrida, and the literature of Kafka, Melville, and Orwell. Additional sources are Mozart's Don Giovanni and seminal films like Ingmar Bergman's Persona.Biderman uses concrete examples from religion and literature to illustrate the formal aspects of the philosophical problems of transcendence, language, selfhood, and the external world and then demonstrates



their plausibility in actual situations. Though his method of analysis is comparative, Biderman does not adopt the disinterested stance of an "ideal" spectator. Rather, Biderman approaches ancient Indian thought and culture from a Western philosophical standpoint to uncover cultural presuppositions that can be difficult to expose from within the culture in question. The result is a fascinating landmark in the study of Indian and Western thought. Through his comparative prism, Biderman explores the most basic ideas underlying human culture, and his investigation not only sheds light on India's philosophical traditions but also facilitates a deeper understanding of our own.