In this Book
- The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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.;
"The Catholic Church and the Jewish People is an extraordinarily useful commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the Vatican Council Declaration on the Jews. Outstanding authorities provide historical perspective, an account of the evolution of the document itself, and analyses of its impact on Jewish-Catholic relations both in the immediate aftermath of the Council and in the long term. An invaluable collection for academics, interfaith activists, and all Jews and Christians interested in the historic transformation in their mutual relations inaugurated by Vatican II."
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xiv
- Part 1. Reflections on the Relationship between Jews and Christians
- Part 2. The Need to Remember
- Part 3. Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism
- Part 4. The Post-Shoah Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
- Part 5. The New Relationship between the Holy See and the State of Israel
- 14. The Vatican and Israel
- pp. 179-185
- 15. The State of Israel and the Holy See
- pp. 186-189
- Appendices
- pp. 191-256
- About the Contributors
- pp. 257-258
- About the Editors
- pp. 259-260
- Index of Scriptural Passages
- pp. 269-272