Two Different Promises: A Christian Perspective on Judaism: Volume 2 (Beyond Absolutes) - Softcover

Bahmann, Dr. Manfred K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539306917 ISBN 13: 9781539306917

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Inspired by German theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this collection of essays and lectures reflects the author's response to the challenge posed to Jewish-Christian relations by scholar and Orthodox Rabbi Irving Greenberg. The author, a Luther scholar, weaves together the latest rethinking of issues arising from our joint heritage as inheritors of the Abrahamic tradition.

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About the Author

Manfred Kurt Bahmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1930. He grew up under the Nazi regime and with his mother and sister fled the firebombing of his city on the night of February 13-14, 1945. This experience and the revelations after the war of Germany’s genocide of the Jews led him to a lifelong search for meaning in religious and philosophical scholarly thought. He attended the German universities of Goettingen, Bonn and Heidelberg. After completing his first and second theological examinations in the Church of the Palatinate, he worked as a Labor Service chaplain for German units stationed on American army and air bases. He is an ordained Lutheran pastor. An exchange year in Dayton, Ohio and a pastorate in West Virginia led him to an interest in the Calvinist influence on American Protestantism. He pursued doctoral studies at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, earning a Ph.D. in church history, and spent five years as a professor for church history at the Lutheran and Protestant seminaries (I.S.I.D.E.T.) in Argentina. Since then, Bahmann has had a long and varied career, from teacher and parish pastor in the United States and Cold-War West Berlin to campus pastorates at Stanford University and New York University. Now retired, he is heavily involved in Jewish-Christian interfaith issues. He lectures widely and worships regularly with a Reform Jewish congregation.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539306917
• ISBN 13: 9781539306917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212