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

The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome
ISBN-10
0823228053
ISBN-13
9780823228058
Category
History
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Authors
Philip A. Cunningham, Joseph Sievers, Norbert Johannes Hofmann

Description

This book makes available in English important 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 essays explore challenging 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 conflicted and often tragic history, aspects of a Christian theology of Judaism, the Catholic-Jewish dialogue since the Shoah, and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel. The book includes an essay by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and documents on the rapprochement between the Church and the Jewish people.

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