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 ContentsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Open to the Other. The Dynamics of Difference in Hermeneutical Theology - Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford, UKI Biblical Others and Other BiblesMoses: The Significant Other - Brian Klug, University of Oxford, UKJoseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other - Andrew D. H. Mayes, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandBecoming ‘Another’: Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel - Mary Marshall, University of Oxford, UKThe Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-Bad Text Hermeneutics - Jesper Svartvik, Lund University, SwedenThe Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum - Olivier Riaudel, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium2 Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour - Arne Grøn, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkThe Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart - Dietmar Mieth, University of Tübingen, GermanyThe Value of the Other - Tage Kurtén, Åbo Akademi University, FinlandLove of God and Love of One Another According to Paul - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USAPaul Ricoeur as Other - Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University, FinlandThe 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, GermanyIn-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love - Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark3 Theological Others and Other TheologiesThe Other Language: Religion in Modernity - Knut Wenzel, Goethe-University Frankfurt, GermanyLaughing at the Other - Ola Sigurdson, University of Gothenburg, SwedenForeignness as Focal Point of Otherness - Pierre Bühler, University of Zürich, SwitzerlandSexual Difference in Christian Doctrine and Symbolism: Historical Impact and Feminist Critique - Kari Elisabeth Børresen, University of Oslo, NorwayThe Other on the Cross - Anne-Louise Eriksson, Stockholm School of Theology, SwedenThe Other Without and the Other Within - George Newlands, University of Glasgow, UKAugustinian Love - Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UKWho loves? Who is loved? The Problem of the Collective Personality - Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UKGegenüber Revisited: ‘Thirding-as-Othering’ in Karl Barth’s Concept of Space - Kjetil Hafstad, University of Oslo, Norway4 Religious Others and Other Religions Empathy and Otherness in Interreligious Dialogue - Catherine Cornille, Boston College, USAIn the Presence of God – Making Room for the Other: An Autobiographical Approach - Karl-Josef Kuschel, University of Tübingen, GermanyRelated 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, UKBeyond Indifference: Religious Traditions as Resources for Interreligious Toleration - Christoph Schwöbel, University of Tübingen, Germany5 God as Other and the Otherness of GodLoved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love - David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UKThe Other and the Interruption of Love - Lieven Boeve, Catholic University of Leuven, BelgiumThe Middle English Poem Pearl: A Study in the Unfamiliar - Santha Bhattacharji, University of Oxford, UKFinding the Otherness of God in Literature - David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UKIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names

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.