Dialogue with the Other: Martin Buber and the Quaker Experience

by Janet E. Schroeder

Overview

I do not, myself, know how to speak about God. I only know God as he has spoken to me in the experiences of the everyday. What has just been related is one of these experiences. And yet much has been written about God, and in one sense it is my purpose to do so, for I would like to share with you some of the various methods for corporate as well as individual worship experiences; to explore into the meaning of the experience itself; and what the relationship is to the dialogue between man and man ­ and between God and man. I believe the understanding of the dialogue has been greatly influenced by Martin Buber, and that he has made an outstanding contribution to Friends as well as to all Christian thought through his approach.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149934225
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	12/11/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #192
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	91 KB

About the Author

Janet Schroeder believes that “religion is all of life.” The immediacy and warmth of her pamphlet is an expression of this. Amongst the first of her many interests are four lively grandchildren, and for some years she and her husband, Alfred C. Schroeder, have been part of the Bryn Gweled Homesteads, an intentional, interracial community in Bucks County. She is a leader of Y.W.C.A, and other youth groups, is active in interfaith work, and is a member and former chairman of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Religious Education Committee. She was co-compiler of Candles in the Dark, a peace story anthology, and author of the Religious Education Committee publication, To Come Alive. A recent article in the Friends General Conference Quarterly, “Approaching the Lord with Clay,” describes one of the family worship experiences in which she has recently been involved.
With a Bachelor’s Degree from Simmons College and a Master’s in Religious Education from Boston University, she continues to study whenever courses speak to a “Way of Life” for her. This has led to graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, and to Maurice Friedman’s courses on Martin Buber at Temple University. Out of a class in Inter-religious Dialogue grew the present pamphlet.