After the Evil

After the Evil

Author: Richard Harries

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003-07-03

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199263132

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This text develops the work of Jewish scholarship to discern resonances between central Christian and Jewish beliefs. Offering fresh approaches to contentious and sensitive issues, it argues that God's basic covenant is not with either Judaism or Christianity, but with humanity.


Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue

Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue

Author: Alan L. Berger

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-12-23

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0739199013

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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.


Faith After the Holocaust

Faith After the Holocaust

Author: Eliezer Berkovits

Publisher: Ktav Publishing House

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Examines the question of God's noninterference in the Holocaust and other tragedies in Jewish history. Shows "how man may affirm his faith even when confronted with God's awesome silence."--Back cover.


A Guest in the House of Israel

A Guest in the House of Israel

Author: Clark M. Williamson

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780664254544

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Williamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology of anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scriptures, the church, and God, and suggests a radical, constructive alternative to the "teaching of contempt".


Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism

Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism

Author: Paula Fredriksen

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780664223281

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Current scholarship in the study of ancient Christianity is now available to nonspecialists through this collection of essays on anti-Judaism in the New Testament and in New Testament interpretation. While academic writing can be obscure and popular writing can be uncritical, this group of experts has striven to write as simply and clearly as possible on topics that have been hotly contested. The essays are arranged around the historical figures and canonical texts that matter most to Christian communities and whose interpretation has fed the negative characterizations of Jews and Judaism. A select annotated bibliography also gives suggestions for further reading. This book should be an excellent resource for academic courses as well as adult study groups.


The Aryan Jesus

The Aryan Jesus

Author: Susannah Heschel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-10-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0691148058

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Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center. Based on years of archival research, The Aryan Jesus examines the membership and activities of this controversial theological organization. With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans. Institute members--professors of theology, bishops, and pastors--viewed their efforts as a vital support for Hitler's war against the Jews. Heschel looks in particular at Walter Grundmann, the Institute's director and a professor of the New Testament at the University of Jena. Grundmann and his colleagues formed a community of like-minded Nazi Christians who remained active and continued to support each other in Germany's postwar years. The Aryan Jesus raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought.


Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity

Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity

Author: Gerald McDermott

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1683594622

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How Jewish is Christianity? The question of how Jesus' followers relate to Judaism has been a matter of debate since Jesus first sparred with the Pharisees. The controversy has not abated, taking many forms over the centuries. In the decades following the Holocaust, scholars and theologians reconsidered the Jewish origins and character of Christianity, finding points of continuity. Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity advances this discussion by freshly reassessing the issues. Did Jesus intend to form a new religion? Did Paul abrogate the Jewish law? Does the New Testament condemn Judaism? How and when did Christianity split from Judaism? How should Jewish believers in Jesus relate to a largely gentile church? What meaning do the Jewish origins of Christianity have for theology and practice today? In this volume, a variety of leading scholars and theologians explore the relationship of Judaism and Christianity through biblical, historical, theological, and ecclesiological angles. This cutting-edge scholarship will enrich readers' understanding of this centuries-old debate.


The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology

The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology

Author: Steven T. Katz

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2005-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0814747841

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The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology brings together a distinguished international array of senior scholarsumany of whose work is available here in English for the first timeuto consider key topics from the meaning of divine providence to questions of redemption to the link between the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel.


Bazyli & Anna Jocz

Bazyli & Anna Jocz

Author: Kelvin Crombie

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780646822952

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During the period from 1933-1945 Jewish people throughoutEurope were persecuted by the Nazi regime in Germany, andsome six million were murdered. About half of those murderedwere from Poland.What is not so well known is that there were tens of thousandsof Jewish people in Europe who were associated with the Churchin one form or another. These Jewish or Hebrew Christians(officially 'non-Aryan Christians') suffered like all other Jewishpeople due to the Nazi race laws.The Jocz family from Poland fell into that category.This narrative follows the lives of Bazyli and Anna Jocz fromwhen they were born in 1880. Bazyli was murdered in 1944 andAnna was severely injured and suffered for the remainder of herlife. It also follows the lives of their sons, and in particular Jakoband Pawel.Considerable background information is provided in orderto better understand the historical and geographical contextin which the family lived, as well as the various phases of theHolocaust.What happened to the Jocz family was quite typical of whathappened to many of the Jewish or Hebrew Christians ofPoland and Europe. Many were murdered by the Nazi's and theirallies, while some survived. This book is an attempt to tell the collectivestory of this sub-group of Jewish victims of the Holocaust."Kelvin has a reputation for rigorous research and leaves no stone unturned. He uncovers another dimension to the Holocaust and one that many have missed. The Nazi fury unleashed against non Aryan Christians." (Marquess of Reading).