What's It all About?
Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers.
Accordingly, understanding what we mean by ‘truth’ is a key challenge to
interreligious collaboration. The contributors to this volume, all
leading scholars, consider what is meant by truth in classical and
contemporary Jewish thought, and explore how making the notion of truth
more nuanced can enable interfaith dialogue. Their essays take a range
of approaches: some focus on philosophy proper, others on the
intersection with the history of ideas, while others engage with the
history of Jewish mysticism and thought. Together they open up the
notion of truth in Jewish religious discourse and suggest ways in which
upholding a notion of one’s religion as true may be reconciled with an
appreciation of other faiths.
By combining philosophical and theological thinking with concrete case
studies, and discussion of precedents and textual resources within
Judaism, the volume proposes new interpretations of the concept of
truth, going beyond traditional exclusivist uses of the term. A key aim
is to help Jews seeking dialogue with other religions to do so while
remaining true to their own faith tradition: in pursuit of this, the
volume concludes with suggestions of how the ideas presented can be
applied in practice.
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