Martin Buber and some Theologians of ‘Encounter’1

Bryan J. Fair

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Martin Buber and some Theologians of ‘Encounter’1

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I would like to draw attention to certain influential misrepresentations of the views of Martin Buber and others relating to the notion of an encounter between God and man.

Type: Research Article
Information: Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1968 , pp. 27 - 36

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^{page 27 note 5} Hepburn, , op. cit., p. 35Google Scholar. Hepburn's arguments are cited with approval by Ferré, Frederick in Language, Logic and God, 1962, ch. 8.Google Scholar

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^{page 28 note 1} Lewis, , Teach Yourself Philosophy of Religion, p. 111.Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 2} Wodehouse, , ‘Martin Buber's “I and Thou”’, Philosophy, Vol. XX, p. 17.Google Scholar

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^{page 28 note 7} The best exposition of I and Thou is by Diamond, M. L., Martin Buber: Jewish Existentialist, 1960Google Scholar. Helen Wodehouse shows insight into Buber's meaning in the article cited above. Friedman's, M. S.Martin Buber: the Life of Dialogue, 1955Google Scholar is largely uncritical paraphrase. H. J. Paton gives a sympathetic but critical summary in his Gifford, Lectures, The Modern Predicament, 1955, pp. 162–73.Google Scholar

^{page 29 note 1} I and Thou, 1937, pp. 6 and 101.

^{page 29 note 2} op. cit., pp. 3, 10, 11, 79.

^{page 29 note 3} op. cit., pp. 3, 43ff, 58.

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^{page 29 note 5} op. cit., p. 6.

^{page 30 note 1} ibid., p. 8.

^{page 30 note 2} ibid., p. 46, my italics.

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^{page 30 note 5} ibid., p. 34.

^{page 30 note 6} ibid., p. 114f.

^{page 30 note 7} ibid., p. 42.

^{page 31 note 1} ibid., p. 7.

^{page 31 note 2} Buber, , Between Man and Man, paperback 1961, p. 27.Google Scholar

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^{page 31 note 6} I and Thou, pp. 92–93, cf. Eclipse of God, pp. 39–40.

^{page 31 note 7} op. cit., p. 40, Buber's italics.

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^{page 31 note 9} ibid., p. 49f.

^{page 32 note 1} ibid., pp. 53, 54.

^{page 32 note 2} Farmer, , The World and God, p. 23.Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 3} ibid., p. 78.

^{page 32 note 4} Baillie, , Our Knowledge of God, paperback 1963, p. 214.Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 5} ibid., p. 222; cf. Baillie, , The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought, 1956, p. 26.Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 6} op. cit., p. 114.

^{page 33 note 1} Hepburn, , op. cit., p. 31.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 2} Brunner, , op. cit., p. 115.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 3} Hepburn, , op. cit., pp. 31–39.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 4} ibid., p. 35.

^{page 33 note 5} ibid., p. 38f.

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^{page 34 note 2} ibid., p. 129.

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^{page 34 note 4} Martin, , Religious Belief, 1959, p. 89.Google Scholar

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^{page 35 note 2} ibid., p. 409.

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^{page 35 note 5} ibid., p. 260.

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^{page 35 note 9} Towards Belief in God, pp. 40, 41.

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