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There is no real precedent for this. The last time Christianity and Judaism had knockdown debates was during medieval "disputations" convened by Christian authorities and decisively rigged against the Jews. Although the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 renounced the Roman Catholic teaching that Jews were Christ killers and John Paul II acknowledged Jews' ongoing presence by visiting a synagogue, postwar papal discourse has focused on Christianity's view of Judaism, not the reverse, and steered serenely around fundamental controversies. Jesus of Nazareth takes the next huge step: "a Pope taking seriously what a Jew says--and says critically--about...
...choosing Neusner as his muse, Benedict selected a man as formidable and controversial in the field of Jewish studies as the Pope is in Catholicism. An expert on the sprawling literature of the 1st through 6th century rabbis who shaped modern Judaism, Neusner is an empire builder, a central figure in wrestling an examination of Judaism into America's universities. He accomplished this through brilliance (he developed his own secularly comprehensible synthesis of rabbinics), superhuman productivity (he has written more than 950 books, although he will admit to a certain reprocessing of material) and a knack for grooming gifted prot?...
Clayton says he hopes to expand his own discussion of science and religion past the Christian tradition as well—to Judaism and Buddhism and possibly to Islam...
What would you do if your religion class asked you to simulate events related to the Holocaust? That’s been one of the challenges for the students in Religion 1407, “Judaism and Christianity: A Conflictual History.” Professor Nicola F. Denzey aims to help her class understand “Why something as monstrous as anti-Semitism, particularly Christian anti-Semitism erupted around World War II,” she said. Denzey was quick to point out that the class is not doing a “Holocaust simulation...
Repeating throughout the night that she was not a theologian and choosing to identify herself as a “problem-solver” instead, she pointed to the problematic belief within Islam, Christianity, and Judaism that a “decisive battle” would determine the region’s future...