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Rabbi Jacob J Petuchowski a specialist in Judeo-Christian dialogue and Jewish liturgical traditions, said yesterday he hopes to teach "the Christian theology of Judaism and the Jewish theology of Christianity--how each religion looks upon the other...
Petuchowski, who is currently a professor of Judeo-Christian studies at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, will fill the chair in 1984-85. "They wanted me earlier, but that's the earliest I can get away from here," Petuchowski said...
...identifying with the Judeo-Christian West, Sadat alienated himself from the Islamic world, facilitating religious, as well as secular, opposition to the peace process, Sid Ahmad said...
Bowen agrees, saying that she and other members "recognize that what we've been handed, to a large extent, is the Europeanized version of Christianity," and nothing that the Judeo-Christian tradition is not of European origin. "The name of the society is to call attention to the fact that the man who began the evangelical movement in America was Black. The name represents a historical fact that touches Black folk everywhere, Christianity everywhere," Bowen says...
...followers, Islam appeared out of Arabia in the 7th century and rapidly spread in all directions. For almost a millennium Christian Europe felt itself challenged (as indeed it was) by this last monotheistic religion, which claimed to complete its two predecessors. Perplexingly grand and "Oriental," incorporating elements of Judeo-Christianity, Islam never fully submitted to the West's power. Its various states and empires always provided the West with formidable political and cultural contestants-and with opportunities to affirm a "superior" Occidental identity. Thus, for the West, to understand Islam has meant trying to convert its variety into...