Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Contents of Volume 40 (2003)
Volume 40, Numbers 1-2 (Winter-Spring, 2003)
CONTEMPORARY CONFUCIANISM AND WESTERN CULTURE
Edited by Liu shu-hsien, John Berthrong, and Leonard Swidler
Table of Contents
Preface
by Leonard Swidler 1
Introduction: Contemporary Confucianism and Western Culture
by Liu Shu-hsien, John Berthrong, and Leonard Swidler 2
Confucianism for Modern Persons in Dialogue with Christianity and Modernity
by Leonard Swidler 12
Boston Confucianism: The Third Wave of Global Confucianism
by John Berthrong 26
Conscious and Unconscious Placing of Ritual (Li) and Humanity (Ren)
by Robert Cummings Neville 48
Confucianism as World Philosophy: A Response to Neville’s Boston Confucianism from a Neo-Confucian Perspective
by Liu Shu-shien 59
The Rise of Modern Historical Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Eighteenth-Century East Asia and Europe
by Q. Edward Wang 74
Richard Wilhelm’s Reception of Confucianism in Comparison with James Legge’s and Max Weber’s
by Adrian Hsia 96
Albert Schweitzer on Chinese Thought and Confucian Ethics
by Heiner Roetz 111
Mengzi and Virtue Ethics
by Bryan W. Van Norden 120
Confucianism and Genre: Presentation and Persuasion in Early Confucian Thought
by Lee H. Yearley 137
What Christianity Can Offer China in the Third Millennium
by Leonard Swidler 153
Jews in China; A Dialogue in Slow-Motion
by Wan-Li Ho 171
Seeds for Dialogue: Learning in Confucianism and Judaism
by Galia Patt-Shamir 201
Contributors 216
Volume 40, Numbers 3 (Summer, 2003)
Table of Contents
The Church and Faithfulness in a Religiously Plural Society
by S. Wesley Ariarajah 219
Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue in Canada
by Catherine E. Clifford 229
The Roman Catholic-United Church Dialogue in Canada
by Angelika Piché 235
Efforts for a Second Conference on Faith and Order in North America: A Progress Report
by William G. Rusch 240
Reconsidering the Possibility of Pluralism
by Rose Drew 245
Whose God? Which Religion? Compassion as the Heart of Interreligious Cooperation
by James E. Gilman 267
Volume 40, Numbers 4 (Fall, 2003)
Table of Contents
David S. Wyman’s The Abandonment of the Jews, Twenty Years After: Its Impact and Legacy
Preface: David S. Wyman and the Cosmic Dance of Dialogue
by Leonard Swidler 343
Foreword
by Rafael Medoff 345
Introduction
by Racelle R. Weiman 347
America, the Holocaust, and The Abandonment of the Jews
by Rafael Medoff 350
David S. Wyman and the Controversy over the Bombing of Auschwitz
by Paul B. Miller 370
Fudging the Numbers: Another Look at the Use of Statistics by Some Critics of The Abandonment of the Jews
by Alex Grobman 381
American Catholic Responses to the Holocaust: An Exchange between David S. Wyman and Eugene J. Fisher 386
Marching with the Bergson Group: A Memoir
by Arthur Hertzberg 390
Symposium 393
“Liberated by the Yanks”: The Holocaust as an American Story in Postwar News Articles
by Laurel Leff 407
From Literary Gadfly to Jewish Activist: The Political Transformation of Ben Hecht
by Gil Troy 431
The Evolution of American Orthodox Relief and Rescue Efforts during the Holocaust: Two
Documents
by Efraim Zuroff 450
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and American Jewry’s Response to the Holocaust
by Haskel Lookstein 457
Afterword
by David S. Wyman 461
Contributors 463
Explorations and Responses:
Nazism, Millenarianism, and the Jews
by Thomas Idinopulos 296
A Giant in Biblical Studies from the Far East
by Richard Henry Drummond 303
Debrecen Dialogues between Orthodox and Reformed Churches, 1972-1987
by János Pásztor 314
Recent Patriarchal Encyclicals on Religious Tolerance and Peaceful Coexistence
by George C. Papademetriou 320
