Jews and Christians : people of God / edited by Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braaten, Carl E., 1929-2023.

Jenson, Robert W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--1945---Congresses.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--1945---Congresses.

Judaism.

Judaism (Christian theology)--Congresses.

Judaism (Christian theology).

Relations.

Christianity.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge, U.K. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2003]

Summary:

While Christians and Jews Have Always Been Aware of their religious connections -- historical continuity, overlapping theology, shared scriptures -- that awareness has traditionally been infected by centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility. As this important volume shows, however, theologians and scholars of Judaism and Christianity alike are now radically rethinking the relation between their two covenant communities. Jews and Christians presents the best of this work, introducing readers to a coherent Jewish theology of Christianity and a Christian theology of Judaism. Here are leading Christian and Jewish thinkers who have engaged in extensive conversation, who take each other's work seriously, and who avoid the pitfall common to Jewish-Christian dialogue -- watering down distinctive beliefs to accommodate both partners. Indeed, these pages show how the new theological exchange goes to the roots of that "olive tree" of which both Judaism and Christianity are branches, and the book as a whole represents post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian dialogue at the highest theological level. In addition to eight major chapters, Jews and Christians includes a moving testimony by Reidar Dittmann on his experience of the Holocaust and reprints the 2000 manifesto Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity, followed by incisive Christian and Jewish responses.

Contents:

Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism / Robert W. Jenson 1

Hallowed Be Thy Name! The Tetragrammaton and the Name of the Trinity / R. Kendall Soulen 14

Our Father Abraham: A Point of Theological Convergence and Divergence for Christians and Jews / Marvin R. Wilson 41

Salvation Is from the Jews / Richard John Neuhaus 65

The Church as Israel: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism / George Lindbeck 78

From Supersessionism to Parallelism in Jewish-Christian Dialogue / David Novak 95

Recovering the God of History: Scriptural Life after Death in Judaism and Christianity / Peter Ochs 114

Did God Forgive Adam? An Exercise in Comparative Midrash / Jon D. Levenson 148

Birds Never Sing in This Forest / Reidar Dittmann 171

Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity 179

A Symposium on Dabru Emet / Wolfhart Pannenberg, David Bentley Hart, David B. Burrell, C.S.C., Barry Cytron 183.

Notes:

"Most chapters of this book originated as addresses presented at a conference on 'Jews and Christians: People of God,' held at Augsburg College, Minenapolis, Minnesota, June 10-12, 2001"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802805078

OCLC:

52121470