James L Heft
Biographic Data
| ID | 449152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James L Heft |
| GIVEN NAMES | James L |
| FAMILY NAME | Heft |
| SIGNATURE | HEFT J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alton Brooks Professor of Religion, University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America
Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of different denominations had created such a cacophony amongst themselves in the mission fields that they decided that it woul…
Catholicism and interreligious dialogue
How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this volume, James L. Heft and 15 other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question.
Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
"The fruit of a historic conference of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars and community leaders sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, the essays address a fundamental question: how the three monotheistic traditions can provide the resources needed in the work of justice and reconciliation." "Two distinguished scholars represent each tradition. Rabbis Irving Greenberg and Reuven Firestone each examine the relationship of Ju…
The Secularization of the Academy
A Catholic Modernity: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture
A Catholic Modernity?
A Catholic modernity: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, Jean Bethke Elshtain
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centrepiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January of 1996, offered Taylor the opportunity to speak about his theological views and his sense of the cultural placement of Catholicism, its history a…
Mary of Nazareth, Feminism and the Tradition
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Mary of Nazareth, Feminism and the Tradition
A Catholic Modernity?
A Catholic modernity: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, Jean Bethke Elshtain
This book offers a series of reflections on the state of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, in the world today. The centrepiece of the volume is a lecture by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor, from which the title of the book is taken. The lecture, delivered at Dayton University in January of 1996, offered Taylor the opportunity to speak about his theological views and his sense of the cultural placement of Catholicism, its history a…
The Secularization of the Academy
A Catholic Modernity: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture
Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
"The fruit of a historic conference of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars and community leaders sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, the essays address a fundamental question: how the three monotheistic traditions can provide the resources needed in the work of justice and reconciliation." "Two distinguished scholars represent each tradition. Rabbis Irving Greenberg and Reuven Firestone each examine the relationship of Ju…
Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of different denominations had created such a cacophony amongst themselves in the mission fields that they decided that it woul…
Catholicism and interreligious dialogue
How can the world's many religions overcome ideological differences and come together to promote understanding, justice and peace? In this volume, James L. Heft and 15 other leading scholars of the world's major religions show how to answer this crucial question.
Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Catholic church (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Christianity (2 works)