Word: jewish-christian
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Controversy also upset the effort. Taking the evangelical rhetoric too literally, Jews were initially incensed by the "Christian America" overtones of the campaign. But Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, one of the most vehement critics, conceded later that the fracas had actually promoted better Jewish-Christian understanding of evangelism...
...casualties of the Yom Kippur War was the growing ecumenical spirit between Christians and Jews. In fact, like the 1967 war before it, the war this autumn shocked Christians into sometimes sharp reappraisals of Israel, and shook Jews with the fear of antiSemitism. One Protestant ecumenical expert in Israel, indeed, lamented that Jewish-Christian relations "have never been more seriously threatened...
...came first instead of Matthew: Mark fails to report a miraculous virgin birth and does not mention Matthew's famous "keys of the kingdom" passage, upon which papal claims to authority rest. Mark plays down the Jewish moorings of Christianity that are evident in Matthew and important to Jewish-Christian relations. Moreover, since Mark's is the simplest and briefest of the Gospels, stories appearing only in the other Gospels might seem more suspect as pious legends, making the Jesus of history a vaguer, perhaps less credible figure...
Rosenzweig's vision of Christians and Jews as complementary allies has not won wide favor among either Jews or Christians. Further, note some critics, the vision minimizes contributions of other world religions. But Rosenzweig's insistence that church and synagogue are interdependent has nonetheless encouraged Jewish-Christian dialogue since...
...past, the Colloquium has been a major event at the Divinity School. The first one, held in 1963, discussed Protestant-Catholic relations; the second, in 1966, dealt with Jewish-Christian relations...