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A recent survey lists over 20 000 different sects of Christianity in the world today. If they cannot agree on Christian doctrine or Church structure it is hardly likely they will share one consistent view on Jews and Israel. Group tendencies can be discerned and described, but one must always be wary of thinking of Christians, any more than Jews, as a monolithic entity. Nor should one overestimate the significance of ‘Christian’ views in contemporary Western society, where professing Christians are probably a minority.
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Peter Schneider, The Christian Debate on Israel (The Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish/Christian Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, England, 1987), p. 28.
Rosemary Ruether, Faith and Fratricide (New York, 1974). Professor Ruether’s book stimulated a vigorous debate. For some of the reactions see, in particular, Alan T. Davies, (ed.) Antisemitism and the Foundations of Christianity (New York: Paulist Press 1979).
Christian Jewish Relations, vol. 18, no. 3, September 1985, p. 22.
Michael J. Pragai, Faith and Fulfilment: Christians and the Return to the Promised Land (London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1985).
Norman Solomon, ‘The Political Implications of a Belief in Revelation’, in Heythrop Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, April 1984.
This text as well as other major Church statements, both Catholic and Protestant, may be studied in Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations compiled by Helga Croner (New York: Paulist Press, 1977), pp. 69–72.
This is reproduced in the sequel to the previous volume, Helga Croner (ed.), More Stepping Stones to Jewish-Christian Relations (New York: Paulist Press, 1985) pp. 167–74.
Ibid., p. 165.
See Sergio Itzchak Minerbi, Ha-Vatikan v’Eretz ha-Kodesh veha-Tziyonut, (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Institute). There is a short review article in English by Geoffrey Wigoder in Christian Jewish Relations, vol. 19, no. 3, September 1986.
See Austin Flannery (ed.) Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, (Dublin: Flannery, Costello Publishing Company, 1975).
Stepping Stones to Further Jewish-Christian Relations compiled by Helga Croner, (New York: Paulist Press, 1977), pp. 16–20.
Helga Croner, (ed.) More Stepping Stones to Jewish-Christian Relations, (New York: Paulist Press, 1985), pp. 220–32. Christian Jewish Relations, vol. 18, no. 3, which carries a Twentieth Anniversary Symposium on Nostra Aetate, reproduces The Common Bond as well as Nostra Aetate itself. There is also, on pp. 67–73, a critical commentary on The Common Bond by Norman Solomon.
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Solomon, N. (1990). The Christian Churches on Israel and the Jews. In: Wistrich, R.S. (eds) Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11262-3_12
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