ABSTRACT
Abraham Joshua Heschel is remembered as many things: teacher, religious scholar, mystic, advocate for social justice (Tippett 2009). Throughout his many writings and speeches, one finds a commitment to discussion and dialogue that is quite refreshing to anyone accustomed to thinking of conversations about religion simply as shouting-matches between adherents of different faiths. Instead, Heschel’s writing is marked by a profound humility, an ever-present sense of the limitations that inhere in any merely linguistic formulation: no articulation suffices to sum up or exhaust its subject. In consequence, Heschel advocates a wide-ranging conversation between members of different religious communities, the point of which is not to convert others to one’s own way of thinking.
