This brilliant and engaging critical encounter between Jean-Francois Lyotard and Eberhard Gruber has as its focus a single punctuation mark-the hyphen connecting "Jew" and "Christian" in the expression "Judeo-Christian." While focusing on the nature, meaning, and function of this hyphen, the authors are able to analyze many of the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, as well …
Students and scholars alike have long been fascinated by the similarities and differences between the traditions founded by the Shakyamun, called the Buddha, and Jesus, called Christ. The Buddha and the Christ introduces readers to Mahayana perspectives and explores the dynamics of discipleship past and present of both Christian and Buddhist traditions.
Christianity was born within Judaism. How it emerged from it and finally, and irrevocably, broke with it is a long and complex story. Terrance Callan sees the process as hinging on two crucial points viz. 'first, the church's decision that Gentile Christians need not keep the Jewish law; and second, the eventual decline of Jewish membership within the church'. This is a small book packed full o…