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The Dialogue of Touchstones: An Approach to Interreligious Dialogue*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Maurice Friedman*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University

Abstract

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Type
Editorial Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1987

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Footnotes

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This essay is based on Maurice Friedman, The Human Way: A Dialogical Approach to Religion and Human Experience (Chambersburg, PA: Anima Publications, 1982).

References

1 Friedman, Maurice Ph.D., , is Professor of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University (San Diego, CA 92182).Google Scholar In addition to The Human Way, he is the author of a dozen books including Touchstones of Reality and Martin Buber's Life and Work (3 vols.).

2 Friedman, Maurice, Touchstones of Reality: Existential Trust and the Community of Peace (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972), p. 26.Google Scholar

3 Buber, Martin, Between Man and Man, trans. by Gregor, Ronald Smith with an Introduction by Friedman, Maurice (New York: Macmillan, 1965), pp. 78.Google Scholar

4 For my own dialogue with Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Hasidism, and Christianity see Friedman, Touchstones of Reality. My systematic treatment of religious experience and communication, solitude and community, tradition and modernity, and religion and human wholeness in The Human Way is also informed by this dialogue.