Pushing the faith : proselytism and civility in a pluralistic world / edited by Martin E. Marty and Frederick E. Greenspahn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Crossroad, 1988.Description: xiv, 190 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0824508718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.7 M367p
LOC classification:
  • BM729.P7 P6 1988
Contents:
Religions, worlds, and order / Charles H. Long -- Modernity and pluralism / Benton Johnson -- The place of other religions in ancient Jewish thought, with particular reference to early rabbinic Judaism / Robert Goldberg -- Joining the Jewish people from Biblical to modern times / Robert M. Seltzer -- Proselytism and exclusivity in early Christianity / John G. Gager -- Christianity, culture, and complications / William R. Hutchison -- Changes in Roman Catholic attitudes toward proselytism and mission / Robert J. Schreiter - - Fundamentalists proselytizing Jews / Nancy T. Ammerman -- The psychology of proselytism / H. Newton Malony -- Proselytizing processes of the new religions / James T. Richardson.

Papers from a symposium sponsored by the University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies and made possible by funding from the Phillips Foundation.

Bibliography: p. 164-188.

Religions, worlds, and order / Charles H. Long -- Modernity and pluralism / Benton Johnson -- The place of other religions in ancient Jewish thought, with particular reference to early rabbinic Judaism / Robert Goldberg -- Joining the Jewish people from Biblical to modern times / Robert M. Seltzer -- Proselytism and exclusivity in early Christianity / John G. Gager -- Christianity, culture, and complications / William R. Hutchison -- Changes in Roman Catholic attitudes toward proselytism and mission / Robert J. Schreiter - - Fundamentalists proselytizing Jews / Nancy T. Ammerman -- The psychology of proselytism / H. Newton Malony -- Proselytizing processes of the new religions / James T. Richardson.

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