Signs of Salvation: A Festschrift for Peter Ochs
Ebook
Overview
Peter Ochs is one of today’s most influential Jewish philosophers and the cofounder of the practice of Scriptural Reasoning. Signs of Salvation: A Festschrift for Peter Ochs celebrates Ochs’ deep and wide-ranging contributions to theology, philosophy, interreligious dialogue, and conflict resolution studies. The volume offers a rich and rigorous introduction to Peter Ochs’ extensive body of work and his philosophy of scriptural pragmatism. In addition, it presents engaging essays by Ochs’ colleagues, friends, and former students, who reflect on the impact his work has had on their academic field and their own thought. Contributors raise questions about the task of philosophy and the nature of reasoning, the appropriate function and limits of the Western academy, the practice of Scriptural Reasoning and its significance for interreligious dialogue, and the future of modern theology. With contributions from: Robert Gibbs Nicholas Adams Daniel Weiss Jim Fodor Jacob Goodson Emily Filler Rumi Ahmed Basit Koshul Nauman Faizi Rachel Muers Eliot Wolfson Steven Kepnes Shaul Magid Mike Higton Tom Greggs Susannah Ticciati Stanley Hauerwas
“The essays included in this wide-ranging volume dedicated to
the remarkable work of Peter Ochs are both engaging and
provocative. Christian and Jewish readers will find the volume
especially rewarding but the many excellent essays included in the
volume are relevant to anyone interested in the intricate
connections between philosophy, theology, logic, and the current
state of the world today.”
—Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University
“More than any other recent thinker, Peter Ochs answers the basic
problematic raised in Anscombe’s great ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’
challenge. Not only does Ochs answer the dilemma of moral
education, but in significant measure resolves it. That is what I
came to believe while reading the wise and warm essays in this
book. Those who know Anscombe’s essay will know what I mean about
Ochs. Those who know Ochs will know what Anscombe meant about
modern philosophy. This book helps us realize both.”
—Jonathan Tran, Baylor University
- Title: Signs of Salvation: A Festschrift for Peter Ochs
- Authors: Mark Randall James, Randi Rashkover
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725261693, 9781725261679, 9781725261686, 1725261693, 1725261677, 1725261685
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725261693
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T13:30:21Z
Mark Randall James is an independent scholar and coeditor of the
Journal of Textual Reasoning, formerly O’Connor Visiting
Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Colgate University. He
is the author of Learning the Language of Scripture: Origen,
Wisdom, and Exegesis (2021).
Randi Rashkover is the Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair in Judaic
Studies at the College of William & Mary. Her other books
include Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the
Theologico-Political Problem (2020), Freedom and Law: A
Jewish-Christian Apologetics (2011), and Revelation and
Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig and the Politics of Praise
(2005).