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Suffering and Compassion: A Jewish-Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Judson B. Trapnell*
Affiliation:
Hampden-Sydney College

Abstract

Theoretical reflection on interreligious questions can be deeply enriched by the praxis of dialogue. The article describes an undergraduate course in which the students and professor engaged self-critically in such dialogue both with texts and one another in the classroom and with local representatives of three religions in a public symposium. In the latter context, students' encounter of the religious “other” was sharpened by having students, rather than the outside experts, present the papers on the course themes—a feature that also stimulated broader interest among the college community. Such a course illustrates the value and the limitations of a dialogical pedagogy in which attention is simultaneously given to learning about both other religions and the students' points of view, in their distinctness and in their interaction.

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Creative Teaching
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 2000

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