Thomas Aquinas on the Jews
Thomas Aquinas on the Jews

Author: Steven C. Boguslawski

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0809142333

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Steven Boguslawski maintains in this provocative book that Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary on Romans uses predestination and election as hermeneutical keys to understand Romans 9-11 and to sustain a positive theological view of the Jewish people. Thomas' positions in the Summa Theologiae on significant policy questions of his time regarding the Jews are set against the socio-historical context in which Thomas wrote. He integrates predestination and election, as treated in the Summa, with their use in the Commentary on Romans. Then he draws a comparison between Thomas's position and that of Augustine. In conclusion he asserts that Thomas's way of reading Romans 9-11 not only corrects and develops the received tradition but also sustains a positive theology of Judaism.

Aquinas and the Jews
Aquinas and the Jews

Author: John Y.B. Hood

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0812200446

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Hood's study contends that Aquinas's writings remain resistant to or skeptical of anti-Jewish trends in thirteenth-century theology. Aquinas sets out simply to clarify and systematize received theological and canonistic teachings on the Jews.

The Origins of Anti-Semitism
The Origins of Anti-Semitism

Author: John G. Gager

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1985-02-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 019536516X

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This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology

Author: Steven Kepnes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1108244157

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.

The Scholastics and the Jews
The Scholastics and the Jews

Author: Edmund J. Mazza

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781621382744

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It has become commonplace in medieval studies to speak of the "formation of a persecuting society" in medieval Catholic Europe. The Scholastics and the Jews, however, marks a major historiographical revision. Ed Mazza identifies the origins of missionary overtures to non-believers not so much with the drive for homogeneity as for holiness.

Living Letters of the Law
Living Letters of the Law

Author: Jeremy Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-11-11

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780520218703

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"Well, clearly, and articulately written, Living Letters of the Law is among the most important books in medieval European history generally, as well as in its particular field."—Edward Peters, author of The First Crusade

Constantine's Sword
Constantine's Sword

Author: James Carroll

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 9780618219087

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A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."

Christ Killers
Christ Killers

Author: Jeremy Cohen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0195178416

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In this first book to focus on the myth that the Jews were responsible, directly and indirectly, for the death of Jesus Christ, Cohen explores the fascinating career of this myth, as he tracks the image of the Jew as the murderer of the messiah and God from its origins to its most recent expressions. 30 halftones.

When Christians Were Jews (That Is, Now)
When Christians Were Jews (That Is, Now)

Author: Wayne-Danie Berard

Publisher: Cowley Publications

Published: 2006-10-26

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1461636108

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When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered. Narrating recent biblical scholarship as a story of family strife, Berard recounts how early Christians dissociated from their Jewish origins and reflects on the spiritual loss suffered by Christianity because of this division. He calls Christians to explore “with open mind and heart . . . the Jewishness not only of Jesus but of themselves.”

The Gifts of the Jews
The Gifts of the Jews

Author: Thomas Cahill

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2010-04-28

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0307755118

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today. The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception of men and women as individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas Cahill narrates this momentous shift, he also explains the real significance of such Biblical figures as Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Pharaoh, Joshua, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Full of compelling stories, insights and humor, The Gifts of the Jews is an irresistible exploration of history as fascinating and fun as How the Irish Saved Civilization.