Overview
The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church's efforts at dialogue across religions. Understanding and improving relations between the Church and the Jewish people has been a major focus of the Holy See and the Society of Jesus for many years. This book, the fruit of a major conference on the history, nature, and dynamics of relations between Jesuits and contemporary Jewish life, brings together a rich, wide-ranging selection of essays by Jesuit scholars and pastoral leaders, a leading Jewish studies scholar, and a leading rabbi. Drawing on a variety of approaches in historical and constructive theology, literary criticism, and spirituality, the contributors explore historical, philosophical, theological, cultural, and institutional themes--from Ignatian perspectives on Halakhic spirituality and the role played in Jesuit history by Jews forced to convert to Christianity to Jesuit perspectives on Hannah Arendt, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Harold Bloom.
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Author: Thomas Michel (Secretary Interreligious Dialogue of the Society of Jesus)
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823236985
ISBN 10: 0823236986
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
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Reviews
This volume deepens the conversation between Jesuits and Jews as the Society of Jesus acknowledges its history-both its pride in Ignatius' stance and the need for contrition for its antisemetic role in the years that followed. This is a strong collection of individual essays that will prove useful to theological educators and dialogue participants. The ten papers in this volume were prepared for the Third International Colloquium of Jesuits in Jewish-Christian Dialogue held in 2005 at Zul, Switzerland.
This volume deepens the conversation between Jesuits and Jews as the Society of Jesus acknowledges its history-both its pride in Ignatius' stance and the need for contrition for its antisemetic role in the years that followed. This is a strong collection of individual essays that will prove useful to theological educators and dialogue participants. The ten papers in this volume were prepared for the Third International Colloquium of Jesuits in Jewish-Christian Dialogue held in 2005 at Zul, Switzerland.
Author Information
Thomas Michel, S.J., is Secretary for Interreligious Dialogue of the Society of Jesus in Rome and Ecumenical Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences.
