Do Jews & Christians worship the same God?(Continuing the Conversation)

From: Commonweal | Date: January 28, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

As one of many who have benefited from Jon Levenson's brilliant readings of biblical texts (and as one who sympathizes with his opposition to religious dilution in the ongoing Jewish-Christian dialogue), I am baffled as to why he completely missed the main point of my book, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity, in his November 5, 2004, review, "Chosen Peoples."

The linchpin of my argument is the distinction between absolutism, relativism, and pluralism. Absolutism represents the classic traditions of Judaism and Christianity ...

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