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Faith and struggle, pain and promiseAs a post-Holocaust Jewish thinker, Marc Ellis inhabits the land between homes that we call exile. In this intensely personal work he explores how the religious landscape looks from the perspective of an exile -- and how religious searching continually leads away from the domestic comforts of received Jewish and Christian platitudes and into new struggles for religious authenticity.At once a memoir and an examination of conscience, Ellis's autobiographical starting points spark reflections on Jewish-Christian relations, liberation theology, religion and politics, and issues of justice in Israel and Palestine. His experiences also occasion meditations on solitude and solidarity, gratitude and alienation, memory and responsibility. They exemplify how religiously committed persons, though exiled forever from yesterday's certitudes, can yet practice covenantal fidelity.In the end, for Ellis and for the reader, there is no going back. Exile is not simply a fact; it is a religious imperative. "At stake is the integrity of the religious search as a truly ecumenical adventure".

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Judaism

• Full title: Practicing Exile
• Author: Ellis.
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9780800634438
• ISBN: 0800634438
• ID: 04704182
• Publisher: 1517 Media
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 165 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2001

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