Jewish Theology and World Religions

Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. He is the author of Same God, Other God, Judaism, Hinduism and the Problem of Idolatry (2016), Religious Genius: Appreciating Outstanding Individuals Across Traditions (2017), Luther the Antisemite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective (2018), and Coronaspection: World Religious Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 (2020), and the editor of Covenant and World Religions: Irving Greenberg, Jonathan Sacks, and the Quest for Orthodox Pluralism (Littman Library, 2024). Eugene Korn is academic director of the Center for Jewish–Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat, where he is co-director of the Institute for Theological Inquiry. He is editor of 'Meorot: A Forum for Modern Orthodox Discourse.'

• Notes on Contributors Note on Transliteration Preface - Eugene Korn Introduction: Towards a Jewish Theology of World Religions: Framing the Issues - ALON GOSHEN-GOTTSTEINPart I Philosophical Perspectives on Jewish Pluralism 1 Jewish Views of World Religions: Four Models - ALAN BRILL 2 Justifying Inter-Religious Pluralism - AVI SAGI 3 Pluralism out of the Sources of Judaism: The Quest for Religious Pluralism without Relativism - RAPHAEL JOSPE 4 Respectful Disagreement: Reply to Raphael Jospe - JOLENE S. KELLNER and MENACHEM KELLNER Part II Judaism and the Other 5 Can Another Religion Be Seen as the Other? - STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI 6 The Violence of the Neutral - MEIR SENDOR 7 Jewish Liturgical Memory and the Non-Jew: Past Realities and Future Possibilities - RUTH LANGER Part III Judaism and World Religions 8 Rethinking Christianity: Rabbinic Positions and Possibilities - EUGENE KORN 9 Maimonides’ Treatment of Christianity and its Normative Implications - DAVID NOVAK 10 The Banished Brother: Islam in Jewish Thought and Faith - PAUL FENTON 11 Encountering Hinduism: Thinking Through Avodah zarah - ALON GOSHEN GOTTSTEIN 12 Judaism and Buddhism: A Jewish Approach to a Godless Religion - JEROME (YEHUDA) GELLMAN Concluding Reflections - ALON GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN Index

'The rudiments of Jewish theology were established in the biblical, Talmudic, and medieval eras, yet, while the world has substantially progressed from those times, Orthodox Jewish theology has not. Goshen-Gottstein and Korn recognized this dilemma, and responded to it by compiling a thorough and much needed work of Orthodox interfaith theology that addresses twenty-first century Jews. The multiple contributors in this volume each acknowledge that interfaith relationships are profoundly different than they were in the medieval era, and have constructed interfaith theologies in accord with this new reality . . . a Jewish theology of Eastern religions had been keenly lacking, and it is presented here in a sensitive fashion.' Daniel Ross Goodman, Religious Studies Review