“The epiphany of the face qua face opens humanity. The face in its nakedness as a face presents to me the destitution of the poor one and the stranger.”

The entire Bible, it could be said, is a story of struggles between different ways of responding to the alien.

fertile encounter between the familiar and the foreign.

The shortest route from self to self is through the other.

For how can one discover the God of hospitality in one's own tradition if one is not open to dialogue with others?

If anatheism signals the possibility of God after God, it is because it allows for the alternative option of its impossibility.