''True and Holy'': Christian Scripture and Other Religions

This volume, which offers Christian readings of Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist holy texts, offers a hermeneutic of generosity that yields new bases for friendship and understanding. Lefebure notes the challenges and tensions in the relationship between Christians and these four other religious communities, and also examines the specific issues involved in interpreting the Christian Bible in relations with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. He concludes with a reflection on the experience of conversion from a hermeneutics of hostility to a hermeneutics of generosity in light of the theology of Bernard Lonergan and the mimesis theory of Rene Girard.