Option 4: Disagree, for God's sake!
Read “Disagree, for God’s Sake! Jewish Philosophy, Truth and the Future of Dialogue” (Prof Robert Gibbs) and the responses given by Dr Daniel Weiss and by Prof Agata Bielik-Robson.
Scripts from all three speakers can be accessed on this website. You may also choose to bookmark the main link -- the two responses are linked at the bottom of the lecture text: https://www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/godssake
These lectures were prepared to celebrate the establishment of the Polonsky-Coexist Lectureship in Jewish Studies. It was created in 2011, as a permanent role in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge.
Each lecturer quotes at least one Jewish religious text as part of their argument. You may find it helpful to re-read these source texts carefully.
- Is the style of these texts familiar or distinctive when compared to religious texts you have seen or heard before?
The scholars also quote other sources and authorities.
- What similarities and differences to you notice between these sources?
- How is the content of these talks similar or different to your previous experience of religious argument and dialogue?
Dr Weiss (the Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer) is an important contributor to Cambridge Interfaith Programme.
- How do you think the presence of a specialist in one religious tradition can benefit inter-religious understanding?
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