Can Jews Believe in the Resurrection of the Christian Messiah?

More often than not, what passes under the name of “interfaith dialogue” is little more than an exchange of platitudes. At times it amounts to an invitation to clergymen to dilute the distinctive principles of their respective faiths in the name of mutual understanding. This conversation, by contrast, between Rabbi Mark Gottlieb and the Catholic writer R.R. Reno, manages to be both high-minded and respectful without involving any compromise. Their subject is Gottlieb’s recent article about the Viennese-Israeli scholar and diplomat Pinchas Lapide, author of some highly idiosyncratic writings about Christian teachings on resurrection. (Audio, 35 minutes.)