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Review of The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, by Jonathan Sacks
Paul Knitter
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- Title:
- Review of The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, by Jonathan Sacks
- Author(s):
- Knitter, Paul
- Date:
- 2003
- Type:
- Reviews
- Department:
- Union Theological Seminary
- Volume:
- 27
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12967
- Book/Journal Title:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Abstract:
- From a geopolitical, economic perspective, Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Britain, takes up a problem that has befuddled theologians, especially over the last half century: how to balance—that is, give equal importance to—both identity and difference. Or, How can I be as committed to my own religion as I am open to others? "On this question," Sacks warns us, "the future of the twenty-first century may turn" (p. 43). Only if we can affirm and feel "the dignity of difference" can we "avoid the clash of civilizations."
- Subject(s):
- Religion
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