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The Holocaust: Does It Have Significance for Ethics Today

Pawlikowski, John T. | 01.07.2003

A discussion of the implications of the Shoah for basic questions of personal and political ethics, including an overview of recent scholarly work on the subject.     … [more]

A Message for a Secularized World

Comeau, Geneviève | 01.05.2003

Sister Geneviève Comeau of the Centre Sèvres in Paris addresses the question, ?What message can we, Jews and Christians, give to the modern secularized world?? … [more]

Jews and Christians: Intolerance and Creative Competition in the Middle Ages

Saperstein, Marc | 01.05.2003

Prof. Marc Saperstein of George Washington University offers a fresh view of the relation between Christians and Jews in medieval Europe, asking whether, beyond the well-known competition and conflict, these traditions ever recognized anything of value in the other religion and society. … [more]

Universalist Trends in Jewish Religious Thought: Some Russian Perspectives

Agursky, Mikhail | 01.04.2003

The author presents the views of four prominent Russian Jewish thinkers from the 19th and 20th centuries on the proper relation of Jews and Judaism to the surrounding culture. … [more]

Dabru Emet: Some Reservations about a Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity

Berger, David | 01.03.2003

Description: Rabbi David Berger, professor of history at Brooklyn College (New York), mounts a vigorous critique of Dabru Emet, objecting to the notion of 'theological reciprocity' between Judaism and Christianity. … [more]

Orthodox Judaism and Jewish-Christian Dialog

Rosen, David | 01.02.2003

Rabbi David Rosen of Jerusalem, International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, proposes an alternative to the late Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik’s strictures against interfaith dialogue, seeing it rather as.a means of 'sanctifying the Divine Name among the nations.' … [more]

Jewish-Christian Relations: From Historical Past to Theological Future

Goshen-Gottstein, Alon | 01.01.2003

Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein, director of the Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions in Jerusalem, describes Christian-Jewish relations as characterized by the healing of past wounds and the building of trust. … [more]

Anti-Semitism, the Shoah and the Church. A study of a German-Catholic Working Group (1996)

German-Catholic Working Group (1996) | 01.12.2002

A study of a German-Catholic Working Group (1996): Prof. Dr. Willehad P. Eckert OP, Düsseldorf, Akademiedirektor Hans Herman Henrix, Aachen, Abt Dr. Laurentius Klein OSB, Trier/Jerusalem, Prof. Dr. Dr. Karlheinz Müller, Würzburg, Prof. Dr. Franz Mussner, Paassau, Oberstudiendirektor a. D. Werner Trutwin, Bonn, Pfr. Dr. Michael Ulrich, Dresden, Prof. Dr. Herbert Vorgrimler, Münster, Prof. Dr. Erich Zenger, Münster. … [more]

Speaking of God after Auschwitz

Sherman, Franklin | 01.11.2002

An exploration of various conceptions of God's power and goodness and how they may or may not help believers grapple with the horror of Auschwitz. … [more]

Towards an Anamnestic Culture

Manemann, Jürgen | 01.08.2002

A contribution to a theology 'after Auschwitz and the Gulag Archipelago.' … [more]