Christian-Jewish Dialogue in the Land of Sick Imagination, in: The Holocaust Studies and Materials, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2, 2012, pp. 477-484. (original) (raw)
During the last half century "dialogue" became a term most often used for describing a positive vision of relations between followers of different religions. Regardless of whether this word seems overused, imprecise or inadequate to some, no reasonable person will deny that erecting bridges between communities that traditionally have had an unfavorable attitude to each other is something more than a fantasy of wishful dreamers who practice dialogue-mania or dialoguelatry -to use the terms by means of which Father Prof. Waldemar Chrostowski expresses his disgust with the current state of the dialogue enterprise.
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