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Jacob's Younger Brother - Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II (Hardcover)
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Jacob's Younger Brother - Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II (Hardcover)
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A revealing account of contemporary tensions between Jews and
Christians, playing out beneath the surface of conciliatory
interfaith dialogue. A new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations
opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second
Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and
declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God. In
a few carefully phrased statements, two millennia of deep hostility
were swept into the trash heap of history. But old animosities die
hard. While Catholic and Jewish leaders publicly promoted
interfaith dialogue, doubts remained behind closed doors. Catholic
officials and theologians soon found that changing their attitude
toward Jews could threaten the foundations of Christian tradition.
For their part, many Jews perceived the new Catholic line as a
Church effort to shore up support amid atheist and secular
advances. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary rabbinical
literature, Karma Ben-Johanan shows that Jewish leaders welcomed
the Catholic condemnation of antisemitism but were less
enthusiastic about the Church's sudden urge to claim their
friendship. Catholic theologians hoped Vatican II would turn the
page on an embarrassing history, hence the assertion that the
Church had not reformed but rather had always loved Jews, or at
least should have. Orthodox rabbis, in contrast, believed they were
finally free to say what they thought of Christianity. Jacob's
Younger Brother pulls back the veil of interfaith dialogue to
reveal how Orthodox rabbis and Catholic leaders spoke about each
other when outsiders were not in the room. There Ben-Johanan finds
Jews reluctant to accept the latest whims of a Church that had
unilaterally dictated the terms of Jewish-Christian relations for
centuries.
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