ABSTRACT
One of the difficulties in one religion’s understanding of the other emerges in this chapter, where we deal with ideas and experiences in the one religion that have no counterpart in the other. Lacking an interior analogy upon which to draw in making sense of the other, each religion finds itself baffled by matters critical to the world construction of its counterpart. We do not point to the unique categories as insuperable obstacles in the nurture of reasonable discourse between the two faiths, for in the great age of Islamic and Judaic philosophy and theology, in the Middle Ages, Islam and Judaism found themselves quite able to conduct civil and reasonable debate. But we do find in these categories consequential examples of why interfaith dialogue may yield only confusion.
