Response to: Jewish-Christian Dialogue about Covenant

A Public Dialogue: Contemporary Questions about Covenant(s) and Conversion

In recent years, several controversies have beset official relations between Jews and Catholics. These include whether Catholics should pray for the conversion of Jews, whether the purpose of interreligious dialogue is to lead others to Christian faith, and whether Catholics should undertake non-coercive "missions" to Jews. An underlying theological topic in all these disputes is how the biblic...

The Christian Use of Jewish Numerology

A book called the Zohar emerged during the Middle Ages, giving rise to a Jewish form of mystical speculation known as the "Cabala" and creating strong interest in the system's mystical teachings in both Jewish and Christian circles. During the Renaissance, Pico, Reuchlin, and Ricci led in applying the Zohar's mystical teachings to the OT in defense of Christian doctrines such at that of the Tri...

Jewish Beliefs about God

During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...

Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Cultural Interaction in Sefardic Talmudic Interpretation

The general participation of Iberian Jewry in the scholastic culture of the high middle ages is very well known. Less well known is the continuing in uence the Aristotelian tradition had on Spanish and Sefardic Jewish intellectual life in the Ž fteenth and sixteenth centuries, including its most particularly Jewish of activities, the interpretation of the Talmud. In this period, there appears ...

Response to Consultation Paper, Towards an Anglican Covenant (TAC)