Encounter

Definition

The first act of moral life where persons recognize the one opposite as a person and open themselves to shared existence.

Genesis 15:10 — *So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half. *
Genesis 18:2 — *Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. *
Genesis 2:20 — *So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found. *
Genesis 4:14 — Look, you are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me!”
Genesis 2:23 — *Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” *
John 4:1-26 — Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), he left Judea and set out once more for…