Wrestling with
God and Men
Sunday 29
February 2pm
Steven
Greenberg in conversation with James Alison
Wrestling with God and Men is a
ground-breaking book, challenging Judaism’s traditional rejection of
homosexuality. It is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to
reconcile his two warring identities, as the first ever openly gay and orthodox
rabbi.
To mark the publication of Wrestling with God and Men
two radical theologians, Steven Greenberg and James Alison displayed some
imaginative exegetical creativity in their reading of biblical texts and their
interpretation of tradition as they discussed one of the central issues
dividing both Jewish and Christian communities: can orthodox religion
accommodate homosexual love?
Steven Greenberg is
senior teaching fellow at the National Jewish Center
for Learning and Leadership in New York. He
featured in the awardwinning documentary film, Trembling Before G-d.
James Alison is
a Catholic priest who has studied, lived and worked throughout Latin
America, the USA and
his native England. He
is the author of Faith Beyond Resentment
(2001).
