1. Luther the Antisemite – A Contemporary Jewish Perspective
2. Review of Luther the Antisemite
3. Eugene Korn on Goshen-Gottstein on Thinkers of the Jewish-Christian Relation

In several weeks, Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s newest book will be published by Fortress Press. It is dedicated to Martin Luther and to a reappraisal of his antisemitism, in a broader context of Jewish-Christian relations and of interfaith relations in general. The book has a forward by the most renown expert in the field of “Luther and the Jews”, Thomas Kaufmann of Gottingen. As Bishop Lennart Koskinen writes, in his endorsement of the book: “Goshen-Gottstein’s study of “The Luther model” opens up a deeper understanding, not only of Martin Luther, his theology and historical significance, but also of how basically good religious thoughts can go wrong. This book is a role-model for good interreligious dialogue and deeper understanding also of views you cannot share.”

A summary of some of the key points of this book in popular form is available here.
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As we mentioned in the previous edition of Wisdom, a symposium devoted to Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s work in interreligious theology was held recently in Jerusalem. Karma Ben Johanan reviewed a pre-publication copy of Luther the Antisemite. Following are excerpts of her presentation.

Thoughts following Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s Luther the Antisemite | Karma Ben Johanan

The last decades have shown an unprecedented process in the history of religions. Coping with the disasters of the 20th century on the one hand, while facing processes of globalization, modernization and wide dispersion of knowledge on the other, world religions encountered a new sense of connectedness uniting them, a new willingness to encounter each-other, and often to learn from each other.

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3. Eugene Korn on Goshen-Gottstein on Thinkers of the Jewish-Christian Relation

At the same session of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, Eugene Korn reviewed a forthcoming manuscript devoted to three recent Jewish thinkers who have reflected on Judaism and its relation to world religions – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jonathan Sacks and Irving Yitz Greenberg.

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