Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today: New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships. Four Perspectives - II (original) (raw)
I don't think we're in Christendom anymore, Toto. The consistently superb essays that have been produced by the project, Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today (CJJPT), remove any doubts we may have had that the twenty-first century will challenge Christian theology in profound ways. The authors profile several of the challenges which have emerged in the Jewish-Christian encounter over the past sixty-five years, since the Shoah (Holocaust) made clear the church's complicity in unspeakable horror and focused attention on the doctrinal formulations and ecclesial practices that could allow such a failure of faithfulness. They articulate theological responses, initiate probes into meeting those challenges, and lay the groundwork for an ambitious agenda. These wide-ranging investigations share a central theme: the intellectual and spiritual hegemony which the Christian church claimed for itself through most of its first two millennia is neither necessary to the church's identity nor an accurate account of God's work in the world. Their common effort aims at sustaining the biblical and theological faithfulness of the Christian heritage while formulating central Christian claims in ways that do not depend on that hegemony and will not continue to impose its influence on further generations. Taken together, they set a demanding agenda and establish an impressively high baseline for those who will follow in developing their work more fully. This project is the effort of an "intercontinental partnership" of primarily Roman Catholic scholars, sponsored by the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Boston College, Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Their aim is to explore the possibility of a consensus emerging in recent years on questions of "the relationships among Jesus Christ, the covenantal status of the Jewish people, and understandings of salvation" (xxi). Those questions are not in any way limited to Roman Catholic reflection or significance, 9
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