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This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church has undergone a "reckoning of the soul," beginning with its landmark document Nostra Aetate and embraced a positive theology of Judaism including the ongoing validity of the Jewish covenant. Jews have responded to this unprecedented outreach, especially in the document Dabru Emet. Together, these two Abrahamic traditions have begun seeking a repair of the world. The road has been rocky and certainly obstacles remain. Nevertheless, authentic interfaith dialogue remains a new and promising development in the search for a peace.
This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church has undergone a "reckoning of the soul," beginning with its landmark document Nostra Aetate and embraced a positive theology of Judaism including the ongoing validity of the Jewish covenant. Jews have responded to this unprecedented outreach, especially in the document Dabru Emet. Together, these two Abrahamic traditions have begun seeking a repair of the world. The road has been rocky and certainly obstacles remain. Nevertheless, authentic interfaith dialogue remains a new and promising development in the search for a peace.
Introduction, Alan L. Berger
Chapter 1: A Medication on Hope, Elie Weisel
Chapter 2: A Positive Jewish Theology of Christianity, Irving
Greenberg
Chapter 3: Vatican II, The Passion of the Christ, and the Future of
Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, Alan L. Berger
Chapter 4: Though the Messiah May Tarry: A Reflection on Redemption
in Our Time, David Patterson
Chapter 5: Speaking of the Middle East: Jews and Christians in
Dialogue and Dispute, Amy-Jill Levine
Chapter 6: Christian-Muslim-Jew: The Necessary Trialogue, James
Carroll
Chapter 7: What Have You Done? Wrestling with the Sixth
Commandment, John K. Roth
Chapter 8: Redeeming Sacred Texts from their Sacrilegious Uses,
Mary C. Boys
Chapter 9: The Catholic Church and the Holocaust: Toward an Honest
Assessment, John T. Pawlikowski
Chapter 10: Human Dignity and Jewish-Christian Relations, Donald J.
Dietrich
Alan L. Berger is Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies, director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz, and professor of Jewish studies at Florida Atlantic University.
Ever since the Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate (1965), there
has been a dramatic positive shift in Catholic perspectives of
Jews, a shift nurtured by ecclesiastical declarations seeking
common religious ground between the church and the synagogue.
Likewise, mainstream Protestant denominations have taken a strong
position against the 'teaching of contempt,' projected on Jews by
Christians for two millennia, as errant scriptural reading and bad
theology. Appreciating what was done, adjudicating what is being
done, and conjecturing what must be done between two Abrahamic
faith communities is the nexus of this collection. Berger brings
together the first ten lectures delivered at FAU's Annual May Smith
Lectures in Post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian Dialogue by Jewish and
Christian scholars (Elie Wiesel, Irving Greenberg, Alan Berger,
David Patterson, Amy-Jill Levine, James Carroll, John Roth, Mary
Boys, John Pawlikowski, Donald Dietrich). Restoring shattered
Jewish and Christian belief, behavior, and theology related to God,
the Torah, people, and land is the challenge; shared dialogue in
restoring the world (tikkun `olam) is the rainbow; and the hope of
Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is
the mission. This is an engaging read. Summing Up: Recommended.
Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
*CHOICE*
[The book includes] thoughtful lectures by intelligent and well
meaning scholars. . . .This book is a valuable and an informative
collection of essays that will enlighten the reader to the new
spirit that is now beginning to be felt within both faiths. This is
a book that leaves us with the most precious and the profoundest of
all the religious affirmations in this time when despair is so easy
and cynicism is so abundant. It leaves us with the gift of reason
to hope.
*The Jewish Journal*
Berger's volume includes...a preface and excellent introduction by
the editor summarizing the papers and their significance for the
dialogue.... For Jews and Christians already involved in a
dialogue, Levine's "Speaking of the Middle East" will spark a
lively exchange.... [H]ighly recommended.
*Journal of Ecumenical Studies*
Alan Berger has collected the most important voices in
Jewish–Christian dialogue to present their views in an accessible
and exciting fashion. This is the book to read to understand the
past and future of interreligious dialogue.
*Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College*
Provocative, troubling, but ultimately filled with a difficult
hope, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in
Jewish–Christian dialogue or, more broadly, contemporary religious
pluralism.
*Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University*
This volume makes available eye-opening essays by some of the most
prominent American thinkers and researchers on relations between
Christians and Jews in the aftermath of the Shoah. Their
reflections admirably span numerous disciplines and topics,
including history, ethics, biblical studies, theology, Christian
attitudes toward the State of Israel, and hopes for the future. All
readers will better appreciate both the complexity of the Jewish
and Christian relationship and also the unfinished work of
rapprochement that lies ahead.
*Philip A. Cunningham, Saint Joseph's University*
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