Seymour Cain

SEYMOUR CAIN is a former senior religion editor for Encyclopedia Britannica and author of Gabriel Marcel.

Articles

Judaism and Mormonism: Paradigm and Supersession

For some time now, especially since World War II and the shock and guilt evoked in the Western world by the virtual extermination of the European Jews, traditional Christian views of the role of the…

Dialogue and Difference: “I and Thou” or “We and They”?

I direct my thoughts and yours to the I-Thou model of human related ness as it is confirmed or denied in the all-too-human realm of ethnic, national, religious, and ideological differences. Any honest and wide treatment of how we behave in such circumstances is bound to cause some discomfort, since we may recognize ourselves in some of the horrible examples of non-dialogical relatedness.

Toldot/Generations

now that I’m old
and know it
I begin to glimpse
the endless line