Dynamics of Difference

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Open to the Other. The Dynamics of Difference in Hermeneutical Theology - Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Oxford, UK


I Biblical Others and Other Bibles
Moses: The Significant Other - Brian Klug, University of Oxford, UK
Joseph in Egypt: Assimilation and Separation from the Other - Andrew D. H. Mayes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Becoming 'Another': Nicodemus and his Relationships in the Fourth Gospel - Mary Marshall, University of Oxford, UK
The Bible, Nostra Aetate, and the Good Text-Bad Text Hermeneutics - Jesper Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden
The Alterity of the Letter: Revelation in Dei Verbum - Olivier Riaudel, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

2 Philosophical Others and Other Philosophies
Ethics of Vision: Seeing the Other as Neighbour - Arne Gron, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Outer and Inner Constitution of Human Dignity in Meister Eckhart - Dietmar Mieth, University of Tuebingen, Germany
The Value of the Other - Tage Kurten, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Love of God and Love of One Another According to Paul - Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College, USA
Paul Ricoeur as Other - Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Abo Akademi University, Finland
The 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, Germany
In-Between Subjectivity and Alterity: Philosophy of Dialogue and Theology of Love - Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

3 Theological Others and Other Theologies
The Other Language: Religion in Modernity - Knut Wenzel, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Laughing at the Other - Ola Sigurdson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Foreignness as Focal Point of Otherness - Pierre Buehler, University of Zuerich, Switzerland
Sexual Difference in Christian Doctrine and Symbolism: Historical Impact and Feminist Critique - Kari Elisabeth Borresen, University of Oslo, Norway
The Other on the Cross - Anne-Louise Eriksson, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
The Other Without and the Other Within - George Newlands, University of Glasgow, UK
Augustinian Love - Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, UK
Who loves? Who is loved? The Problem of the Collective Personality - Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UK
Gegenueber Revisited: 'Thirding-as-Othering' in Karl Barth's Concept of Space - Kjetil Hafstad, University of Oslo, Norway

4 Religious Others and Other Religions
Empathy and Otherness in Interreligious Dialogue - Catherine Cornille, Boston College, USA
In the Presence of God - Making Room for the Other: An Autobiographical Approach - Karl-Josef Kuschel, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Related 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, UK
Beyond Indifference: Religious Traditions as Resources for Interreligious Toleration - Christoph Schwoebel, University of Tuebingen, Germany

5 God as Other and the Otherness of God
Loved by the Other: Creatio ex nihilo as an Act of Divine Love - David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh, UK
The Other and the Interruption of Love - Lieven Boeve, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
The Middle English Poem Pearl: A Study in the Unfamiliar - Santha Bhattacharji, University of Oxford, UK
Finding the Otherness of God in Literature - David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK
Index of Subjects
Index of Names