Turning to the Other: Martin Buber's Call to Dialogue in I and Thou - Paperback

by Donovan D. Johnson (Author)

I and Thou is a summons calling us to dialogue today. Like the call Buber himself received, the book invites us to encounter the Other, our counterparts both human and eternal. Buber's spiritual awakening, his engagement with his people and his times, his wide reading, and his grief are contexts that open up this call to us to join with him in the fullness of a life of dialogue. If we follow Buber into his study, into the struggle of his inner life, into his achievement of dialogical existence--he opens up the wonders of I and Thou to us as his testament and his call to us to turn to dialogue, and he shows us the path to the fulfillment of that life. This book ushers us to that place.

Author Biography

Donovan Johnson has an MDiv from Trinity Divinity School and studied religion at the University of Tübingen. He received a PhD in literature at the University of California at Irvine and has taught world religions and global humanities in California and Washington State. Like Buber, he developed dialogue as his mode of instruction. He is an avid hiker, although, unlike Buber, his locale is the Cascades of the Western United States, not the Dolomites.