Revolutionary Forgiveness

Marc H. Ellis was appointed to the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church State Studies at Baylor University in 1998, and was designated in 1999 as both University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies. He holds an M.A. in American Studies from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Intellectual and Religious Studies from Marquette University. Dr. Ellis is distinguished for his specialization in the areas of Jewish, Christian, and Third World liberation theology, Holocaust and Post-Holocaust theology, and Twentieth-Century Jewish-Christian theology, thought, and dialogue.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION PART I. A JEW AMONG CHRISTIANS1. On the Letters of Thomas Merton and Resmary Ruether2. Meeting Daniel Berrigan3. Living with Dorothy Day and the Poor4. Among the Jesuits5. An Invitation from the Maryknoll Missionaries6. Encountering Liberation Theology and Martyrdom7. In the Mission Fields of Latin America8. Travels to Africa and Asia9. Honoring Gustavo GutierrezPART II. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY10. On the future of Judaism and Zionism: A Meditation for Those Who Come After the Holocaust and Israel11. On the Future of Christianity: Reflections on the Burden of Victory and the Dissolution of Empire12. Spirituality and Politics in the New Diaspora13. Speaking of god and the Covenant in the Twenty-First CenturyPART III. THE FUTURE OF ECUMENICAL RELIGIOSITY14. Thinking and Writing the Holocaust in an Age of Jewish Empowerment15. Edward Said and the Future of the Jewish People16. Dorothy Day, the Jews, and the Future of Ecumenical Religiosity17. Questioning Conversion: Gillian Rose, George Steiner, and Chrisitanity18. ""Other Teachers, Other Paths"": Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and the Future of Jewish Life19. On Revolutionary Forgiveness: Practicing the Covenant in a Time of Colonization and Evangelization20. Toward a Pophetic Memory of the Holocaust: A Meditation on We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah21. On Worship and Proclamation: Piecing Together a Jewish Life after the HolocaustEPILOGUE: I Am/Not a Rabbi! A Meditation on Jewish Leadership in a Time of CrisisNotesIndex