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The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome

Philip A Cunningham, Norbert J. Hofmann, and Joseph Sievers

Abstract

This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate). Surveying Vatican dialogues and documents, the chapters explore theological questions posed by the Shoah and the Catholic recognition of the Jewish people's covenantal life with God. Featuring essays by Vatican officials, leading rabbis, diplomats, and Catholic and Jewish scholars, the book discusses the nature of Christian–Jewish relations and the need to remember their conflict ... More

Keywords: Second Vatican Council, Church, non-Christian religions, Nostra Aetate, Shoah, Catholic, God, rabbis, Christian–Jewish relations, Judaism

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780823228058
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011 DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823228058.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Philip A Cunningham, editor

Norbert J. Hofmann, author

Joseph Sievers, author

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Reflections on the Relationship between Jews and Christians

1. Paths Taken and Enduring Questions in Jewish - Christian Relations Today: Thirty Years of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews

Kasper Cardinal Walter

2. Progress and Issues of the Dialogue from a Jewish Viewpoint

Rabbi Dr. Riccardo Di Segni

3. Jewish Perspectives on Christianity

Rabbi Giuseppe Laras

4. Reflections Toward Jewish-Christian Dialogue

Maria Martini, and Cardinal Carlo

Part 2 The Need to Remember

5. The Difficult Apprenticeship of Diversity

Anna Foa

6. The Shoah as a Shadow upon and a Stimulus to Jewish-Christian Dialogue

Massimo Giuliani

Part 3 Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism

7. Israel and the Church – The Two Explorers of the Promised Land: Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism

Archbishop Bruno Forte

8. The Covenant that was Never Revoked: The Foundations of a Christian Theology of Judaism

Erich Zenger

9. Jewish - Christian Relations: A Conciliar Discovery and Its Methodological Consequences for Dogmatic Theology

Peter Hünermann

Part 4 The Post-Shoah Catholic-Jewish Dialogue

10. Nostra Aetate and the Discovery of the Sacrament of Otherness

Alberto Melloni

11. The Creation and Work of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews

Cardinal Jorge, and Maria Mejίa

12. The Commission for Religious Relations With The Jews and the International Catholic - Jewish Liaison Committee

Pier Francesco Fumagalli

13. A Sign of Great Hope: The Beginning of the Dialogue between the Holy See and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Norbert J. Hofmann

Part 5 The New Relationship between the Holy See and the State of Israel

14. The Vatican and Israel

Cardinal Achille Silvestrini

15. The State of Israel and the Holy See

Oded Ben-Hur

End Matter

Appendix 1: Drafts Leading to the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate

Appendix 2: Joint Declarations of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC)

Appendix 3: Joint Statements of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's Delegation for Relations with the Catholic Church

Appendix 4: Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel, December 30, 1993

About the Contributors

About the Editors

Index

Index of Scriptural Passages