Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger on Christians and Jews / edited by Jean Duchesne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lustiger, Jean-Marie, 1926-2007.

Contributor:

Duchesne, Jean, editor.

Series:

Studies in Judaism and Christianity.

Studies in Judaism and Christianity

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2010

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.

Catholic Church.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 164 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York ; Mahwah, New Jersey : Paulist Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume collects a variety of important speeches and interviews of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, "the Jewish cardinal." Born to secular Jewish parents, he insisted that his Jewish identity could not be erased by his baptism, his ordinations to the priesthood and the episcopate, or his elevation to the cardinalate. This belief led him not only to explain his own life, but also to work to establish new relationships between Jews and Catholics in the wake of Vatican II and the interreligious efforts of Pope John Paul II. Included in this volume are several of Lustiger's most important addresses. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger was born Aron Lustiger in Paris in 1926, the son of Polish Jews. In 1940, young Aron decided to ask for baptism, taking up the Christian first name Jean-Marie. He was ordained a priest in 1954. In 1979 he was appointed bishop of Orléans and, later, archbishop of Paris. He was created a cardinal in 1983 and elected to the Académie française in 1995. He died in 2007. Book jacket.

Contents:

Well, if I must: interview in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth

From despair to hope: address to the first Pan-American Conference on Christian-Jewish relations

Judaism and Christianity: interview with Jean-Louis Missika, Dominique Wolton

Let my people go!: address at Yale University

Christianity and religions: address at the Chicago Club

The uniqueness of the Shoah: address given in honor of Saul Friedländer

Jews and Christians, tomorrow: address at Sutton Place Synagogue, New York

Where Jews and Christians work together: address to the World Jewish Congress.

Notes:

"A Stimulus book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58768-232-X

OCLC:

961059577