The Man of Faith and Religious Dialogue: Revisiting "Confrontation"

Theology With Fissures: Contradictions in Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Theological Writings

“…In that sense, this belongs on the list of contradictions between essays, and even on the list of contradictions within a single essay, given that, as Allan Brill (2010) has argued, Soloveitchik borrows from Protestant thinking in "Confrontation" itself. Yet, "Confrontation" also suggests a contradiction between theory and practice, since the lectures upon which Lonely Man was based were originally delivered at St John's Catholic Seminary in Brighton, MA (Korn 2003).…”

“…He could trust only those who would not be frightened by the intimate, personal features of Judaism … The proscription against theological dialogue … [is] not against theological dialogue in toto but against the use of Christian "concepts" and "frames of reference" to discuss Judaism. (Hartman 2001, 153) 12 Eugene Korn (2003), speaking at a 2003 Boston College conference on "Confrontation," suggests a slightly different ukimta. Soloveitchik's prohibition is only against medievalstyle polemics, trying to prove one's religious convictions true to members of another religious group, and not against theological dialogue per se.…”