Pursuing the dream - Dan Cohn-Sherbok

A feminist Roman Catholic theologian and a liberal rabbi exchange letters and emails on the major theological fundamentals of their respective faiths, such as God, Jesus and the Bible, alongside contemporary issues such as war and peace, gender, ecology, family, sin and racism. Their inspiration was a desire to focus on the ways in which their two faiths provide resources for achieving reconciliation in the contemporary world. It soon became clear, however, that they disagreed about nearly everything, except the general principle that each tradition contains invaluable spiritual resources for creating a better world. The problem was that both held very different visions of what such a world should be.But what the conversation finally reveals is the possibility for mutual sympathy and understanding, which in a post-Holocaust, post-9/11 world is perhaps a good enough basis from which to attempt future dialogue and encounter.