Upcoming Lecture
The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel recently held a WEBINAR entitled:
Re-Judaization of Christianity: An Ongoing Process?
to be presented by
Fr. Professor Dr. John T. Pawlikowski O.S.M.
Thursday 24 February 2022 20:00 IST via Zoom
12:00 Chicago, IL; 19:00 Paris, Berlin
Re-Judaization of Christianity: An Ongoing Process?
to be presented by
Fr. Professor Dr. John T. Pawlikowski O.S.M.
Thursday 24 February 2022 20:00 IST via Zoom
12:00 Chicago, IL; 19:00 Paris, Berlin
In 1988, Professor Pawlikowski gave a seminal lecture to the Ecumenical Fraternity, published in Immanuel 22/23, presenting the Church’s then avant-garde move “toward a positive re-appropriation of its Jewish roots in many areas.” Since, the dialogue between Jews and Christians has developed, Jewish and Christians statements on mutual appreciation appeared and are documented in joint scholarships in areas like intertestamental literature, Scripture, patristic and rabbinic hermeneutics, archaeology in the Land of Israel, Middle Eastern history, and social and technological ethics. While progress has been made, there is a sense of some reticence from various Christian and Jewish segments. At a time when anti-Semitism is a growing concern the Church voice appears less vociferous; while Christians often look at the Jewish community as a partner reciprocity is not always in sight.
We invited our decades-old friend Fr. Pawlikowski to assess the process of re-judaization of Christianity. His life-long experience in Jewish-Christian relations makes him uniquely qualified for this challenging task. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics and the Former Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago of which he is a founding member. He was deeply involved in the development of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington having served four terms on its board by presidential appointment. He received Honorary Doctorates from Hebrew Union College, Dominican University, and the Australian Catholic University. He has authored more than one hundred scholarly and popular articles on Jewish Christian and interreligious relations and social ethics. He has also contributed/edited to some twenty published volumes and authored a series of influential volumes on Jewish Christian relations.
We invited our decades-old friend Fr. Pawlikowski to assess the process of re-judaization of Christianity. His life-long experience in Jewish-Christian relations makes him uniquely qualified for this challenging task. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics and the Former Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago of which he is a founding member. He was deeply involved in the development of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington having served four terms on its board by presidential appointment. He received Honorary Doctorates from Hebrew Union College, Dominican University, and the Australian Catholic University. He has authored more than one hundred scholarly and popular articles on Jewish Christian and interreligious relations and social ethics. He has also contributed/edited to some twenty published volumes and authored a series of influential volumes on Jewish Christian relations.
