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Getting Past Supersessionism

An Exchange on Catholic-Jewish Dialogue

The Editors February 10, 2014 - 12:56pm

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"How do we portray the ur-conflict, the 'impossible relationship' between an old immovable object and a new irresistible force as they collided in antiquity? What shockwaves still reverberate from that Big Bang that was, for so long, an intra-Jewish religious schism, turning on the refusal of most Jews to adopt their neighbors’ view of the messiahship of Jesus?" These are questions posed by Steven Englund in the essay that leads our special four-part exchange on Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Jon D. Levenson, Donald Senior, and John Connelly respond to Englund as part of this wide-ranging discussion that considers the impact and influence of Nostra Aetate; considers historical anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism alongside contemporary anti-Zionism; questions the possibility of a framework for open-ended dialogue; and looks at how theological scholarship on Matthew continues to shape interpretations of supersessionsism. 

This special four-part exchange has been funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

'What Our Church Has Inflicted on Judaism' [2]

Steven Englund [3]
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I recall an evening I once spent in the company of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the late archbishop of Paris. A convert from Judaism (he was born Aaron Lustiger), the cardinal took his original...

Dual-Covenant Theology vs. Dual-Truth Theory [4]

Jon D. Levenson [5]
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We should all feel a debt to Steven Englund for his profound, searching, and brutally honest reflection on the current state of the Catholic-Jewish dialogue. He is especially to be commended for...

Not Conversion, but Communion [6]

Donald Senior [7]
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Steven Englund’s essay on Catholic anti-Judaism is as passionate and eloquent as it is challenging. He writes with respect and honesty about a complex and painful subject, and as one who shares...

'Embers Continue to Smolder' [8]

John Connelly [9]
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Steven Englund reminds us that no single event signals the end of a story. The Vatican II document Nostra Aetate seemed to conclude decades of struggle over a new Catholic position on non-Christian...
Topics: 
U.S. Catholicism [10]
Pope Francis [11]
Jewish-Christian Relations [12]
Pope Benedict XVI [13]
Pope John Paul II [14]
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