Hosting God: The Conceptualization of Divine-Human Encounters in Religious Narratives
Hospitality, in the tradition of the three Abrahamic religions, represents and, more often than not, involves the divine. Louis Massignon spoke of hospitality as the great legacy Abraham entrusted to all believers: the theophany of a "God both guest and host" which gives a new and spiritua...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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Concilium
Year: 2022, Issue: 5, Pages: 30-39 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hospitality
/ Christianity
/ Judaism
/ Islam
/ Interfaith dialogue
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| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Hospitality B Abrahamic Religions |
| Summary: | Hospitality, in the tradition of the three Abrahamic religions, represents and, more often than not, involves the divine. Louis Massignon spoke of hospitality as the great legacy Abraham entrusted to all believers: the theophany of a "God both guest and host" which gives a new and spiritual meaning to a practice that goes far beyond the phenomenology of the act. It is not excessive to say that hospitality has its own theological as well as dogmatic character because through this practice we discern the very heart of God himself; a God who not only heard the cry of his people in a foreign land, but the One who became "exiled", a stranger on the earth in order to be a companion of all strangers and exiles on the earth. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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