Revolutionary Forgiveness

Name: Revolutionary Forgiveness
Author: Marc H. Ellis
ISBN: 9781602583412

Essays on Judaism, Christianity, and the Future of Religious Life

by Marc H. Ellis

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

In the call for accountability and commitment, Ellis asks whether the current boundaries that Jews and Christians claim continue to provide the foundations for faith and the embrace of the covenant.

Sales Date: Sunday, 17th Oct 2010

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Revolutionary Forgiveness is a startling series of essays challenging the prevailing sensibilities of both Jews and Christians. In the call for accountability and commitment, Ellis asks whether the current boundaries that Jews and Christians claim continue to provide the foundations for faith and the embrace of the covenant.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

PART I. A JEW AMONG CHRISTIANS

1. On the Letters of Thomas Merton and Resmary Ruether2. Meeting Daniel Berrigan3. Living with Dorothy Day and the Poor4. Among the Jesuits5. An Invitation from the Maryknoll Missionaries6. Encountering Liberation Theology and Martyrdom7. In the Mission Fields of Latin America8. Travels to Africa and Asia9. Honoring Gustavo Gutierrez

PART II. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

10. On the future of Judaism and Zionism: A Meditation for Those Who Come After the Holocaust and Israel11. On the Future of Christianity: Reflections on the Burden of Victory and the Dissolution of Empire12. Spirituality and Politics in the New Diaspora13. Speaking of god and the Covenant in the Twenty-First Century

PART III. THE FUTURE OF ECUMENICAL RELIGIOSITY

14. Thinking and Writing the Holocaust in an Age of Jewish Empowerment15. Edward Said and the Future of the Jewish People16. Dorothy Day, the Jews, and the Future of Ecumenical Religiosity17. Questioning Conversion: Gillian Rose, George Steiner, and Chrisitanity18. "Other Teachers, Other Paths": Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the Future of Jewish Life19. On Revolutionary Forgiveness: Practicing the Covenant in a Time of Colonization and Evangelization20. Toward a Pophetic Memory of the Holocaust: A Meditation on We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah21. On Worship and Proclamation: Piecing Together a Jewish Life after the Holocaust

EPILOGUE: I Am/Not a Rabbi! A Meditation on Jewish Leadership in a Time of Crisis

NotesIndex

Marc H. Ellis was appointed to the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church State Studies at Baylor University in 1998, and was designated in 1999 as both University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies. He holds an M.A. in American Studies from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Intellectual and Religious Studies from Marquette University. Dr. Ellis is distinguished for his specialization in the areas of Jewish, Christian, and Third World liberation theology, Holocaust and Post-Holocaust theology, and Twentieth-Century Jewish-Christian theology, thought, and dialogue.

[Ellis provides a] vital contribution to solving one of the few remaining intractable problems of our time.
~Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Marc Ellis is a brilliant writer, a deeply thoughtful and courageous mind, an intellect who has broken the death-hold of mindless tradition and unreflective cliché to produce a superb account of post-Holocaust understanding.
~Edward Said