Dynamics of Difference

The volume will serve several intellectual constituencies, starting from the acutely academic scholar of theology to those whose curiosities might lead them into the trained maze of philosophical musings. * Reading Religion * [A] collection of engaging and lively essays ... [that] provokes numerous questions. * New Blackfriars *

Ulrich Schmiedel is DPhil Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford, UK. James M. Matarazzo, Jr, is DPhil Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Open to the Other. The Dynamics of Difference in Hermeneutical Theology - Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford, UK I Biblical Others and Other Bibles Moses: The Significant Other - Brian Klug, University of Oxford, UK Joseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other - Andrew D. H. Mayes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Becoming 'Another': Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel - Mary Marshall, University of Oxford, UK The Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-Bad Text Hermeneutics - Jesper Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden The Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum - Olivier Riaudel, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium 2 Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour - Arne Gron, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart - Dietmar Mieth, University of Tubingen, Germany The Value of the Other - Tage Kurten, Abo Akademi University, Finland Love of God and Love of One Another According to Paul - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA Paul Ricoeur as Other - Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Abo Akademi University, Finland The Other of Dialectic and Dialogue - David Tracy, University of Chicago, USA Encountering the Other: The Concept of Encounter in Philosophy and Theology - Matthias Petzoldt, University of Leipzig, Germany In-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love - Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Theological Others and Other Theologies The Other Language: Religion in Modernity - Knut Wenzel, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Laughing at the Other - Ola Sigurdson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Foreignness as Focal Point of Otherness - Pierre Buhler, University of Zurich, Switzerland Sexual Difference in Christian Doctrine and Symbolism: Historical Impact and Feminist Critique - Kari Elisabeth Borresen, University of Oslo, Norway The Other on the Cross - Anne-Louise Eriksson, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden The Other Without and the Other Within - George Newlands, University of Glasgow, UK Augustinian Love - Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UK Who loves? Who is loved? The Problem of the Collective Personality - Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UK Gegenuber Revisited: 'Thirding-as-Othering' in Karl Barth's Concept of Space - Kjetil Hafstad, University of Oslo, Norway 4 Religious Others and Other Religions Empathy and Otherness in Interreligious Dialogue - Catherine Cornille, Boston College, USA In the Presence of God - Making Room for the Other: An Autobiographical Approach - Karl-Josef Kuschel, University of Tubingen, Germany Related Rivals: How Christians and Muslims Might Relate to One Another - Susanne Heine, University of Vienna, Austria 'Who Practices Hospitality Entertains God Himself' - Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh, UK Beyond Indifference: Religious Traditions as Resources for Interreligious Toleration - Christoph Schwoebel, University of Tubingen, Germany 5 God as Other and the Otherness of God Loved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love - David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UK The Other and the Interruption of Love - Lieven Boeve, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium The Middle English Poem Pearl: A Study in the Unfamiliar - Santha Bhattacharji, University of Oxford, UK Finding the Otherness of God in Literature - David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK Index of Subjects Index of Names