By John Hick, Edmund S. Meltzer
The interactions of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups in the course of the centuries have usually been adversarial and infrequently violent. at the present time a brand new 'trialogue' among them is constructing in numerous components of the realm. some of the most formidable ventures to date of this sort came about lately in California and produced this set of exploratory papers and responses. the topics are the strategies of God within the 3 traditions, their attitudes to the cloth global, and their understandings of human existence and heritage. The discussions have been frank and real looking yet while hopeful.
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Actions also involve the body, emotions, and will in an active way as well as the mind, and that is important if the knowledge of God is to influence our whole being and not just a part of us. Since religions aim to affect our actions as well as our thoughts, and since our cognitive knowledge all too often has little effect on our behaviour, teaching directly through rules for action is an especially appropriate form of learning about God. Even if we restrict our attention to the cognitive claims of religion, learning through action is no more problematic as a way to God than learning through observation and thought.
Jewish prayer does include intellectually stimulating material, but it is a separate part of the service, centring around the Torah reading and the attendant lesson or sermon. Even there, we expect to learn about our emotional or moral life, and we come away somewhat disappointed if we have been given an academic treatise - not that the lesson or sermon should be intellectually sloppy, but that we have very different expectations of teaching in the context of services than we do in a college lecture, or even a synagogue adult education course.
11. , for example, Lev. 19:2 and the Sifra on that verse; Sotah 14; Sifre, Ekev, 85a; Mekhilta Shirah 3, etc. 12. Martin Buber has stressed this point, especially in I and Thou (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958). Cf. also Will Herberg, Judaism for Modern Man (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1951) ch. 7. 13. Buber, I and Thou, especially pp. 81-3; Martin Buber, Eclipse of God (New York: Harper, 1952, 1957) pp. 42-6. 14. , for example, Ian Ramsey, Religious Language (London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1957); Frederick Ferre, Language, Logic, and God (New York: Harper and Row, 1961); James A.
