When Faiths Collide (Blackwell Manifestos)
by Martin E. Marty
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Author: Martin E. MartyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-04
ISBN: 1405112239
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Book Review: Classic Marty, worth a look
Summary: 4 Stars
There is a fine distinction between a review and a response, and I want to walk that line. This book is a valuable contribution to the current discussion on how religions relate to each other.
As is characteristic of Marty, he marshalls studies, reports, and personal anecdotes to make his point. In brief, that point is that tolerance preserves the problems of intolerance. By tolerating, I retain my hold on the truth, and reduce to other to an image I understand and control.
Marty's "manifesto" here is that we should "risk hospitality" in relating to the "other/stranger." This hospitality, according to his "domestic analogy," involves inviting the stranger into my home, but not altering the religious articles and icons I display. I invite the other without changing. Marty describes hospitality as engaging the other, feeding him/her, talking, and most of all sharing stories. The experience may or may not change me.
While I admire this effort, I wonder if Marty's description of hospitality really goes far enough. The risk, to me, seems minimal. If we compare his definition of hospitality to that of Jacques Derrida in "Philosophy in a Time of Terror," or anywhere he discusses his concept of cosmopolitanism, Marty seems to fail to escape the realm of tolerance.
For Derrida, the risk of hospitality must risk everything, putting no conditions on who may arrive, or what may happen.
Nevertheless, Marty's book is well worth reading and an important contribution to interfaith conversation.
May we risk more.
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