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Healing the Christian Rift
Miller, Ron; Bernstein, Laura
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Description for Healing the Christian Rift
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people? "Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of 'I, me and mine.' This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential ... Read more
How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people? "Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of 'I, me and mine.' This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Jewish Lights Publishing United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Woodstock, United States
ISBN
9781594731396
SKU
V9781594731396
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About Miller, Ron; Bernstein, Laura
Laura Bernstein, a Jewish scholar, is active in interfaith ministry. She has published articles and essays on spiritual practice, led interfaith groups in sacred chant and meditation and spent five years in rabbinical studies at the Hebrew Seminary of the Deaf in Skokie, Illinois. Ron Miller is the chair of the Religion Department at Lake Forest College in ... Read more
Reviews for Healing the Christian Rift
"Startling in its innovative approach … shatters the mold of most approaches to Gospel commentary. It imaginatively yokes together historical scholarship, literary freshness and commitment to interreligious dialogue—all with a spiritual energy that is unnervingly evocative for our turbulent times." —Rev. Alan Race, editor in chief, Interreligious Insight: A Journal of Dialogue and Engagement "Excellent and insightful ... Read more