ICJS Library Table Of Contents

Leighton, Christopher M.

A conversation with Norman Mailer

Brueggemann, Walter

Suffering Produces Hope

Catalano, Rosann M.

We Remember A Reflection on the Shoah The Vatican Statement

Albright, Robert E.

How Official Christian Liturgical Songs and Prayers Form Christian Perceptions of Judaism

"...recognizing that the hymns and prayers we sing and speak are forms of teaching, we must be careful to fill our hymnody with good Theology?"

Bach

Religious Intolerance and the Arts:Bach Under the Microscope
Bach's Passion of St. John
by Christopher M. Leighton

The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Matthew, with notes on Bach's Passion of St. Matthew
by Eugene J. Fisher

Catalano, Rosann M.

Violence Unveiled: Supersessionism Dangerously Veiled

"Gil Bailie's book, Violence Unveiled:Humanity at the Crossroads is likely to play a significant role in reshaping public perceptions of the links between religion, culture, and violence [and] is a deeply disturbing book that veils a subtle, but no less dangerous, Christian supersessionism and triumphalism."

Fuchs-Kreimer, Nancy

The Seven Extant Letters of Rabbi Nancy of Philadelphia to Rabbi Paul of Tarsus

"But why do I, a Jew, want to get to know you [Paul] better? Most of my co-religionists, from your era right up till mine, see you as the archetype of the Jewish heretic?[yet] how could somebody hated that much by the establishment of my community be all bad? The iconoclast in me reaches out. But there is more?"

Leighton, Christopher M.

Contending with a Polemical Tradition:The Rhetorical Art of Christian Self-Definition

"Can Christians dismantle the ideology of anti-Judaism without destroying the church itself?"

Leighton, Christopher M.

The Old and the New Challenges of Reading Noah in the Christian Tradition

"Underlying the typological reading of Noah is a supersessionism, a theology of displacement which asserts that the church has replaced the synagogue and this outlook is far more pervasive than we like to admit in this era of political correctness."

Greenberg, Gershon

The Holy Land in American Religious Thought, 1620-1948

Puritans, Zionists, Catholics, Protestant liberals and evangelicals, Orthodox Jews, Black Christians, Mormons, Reform Jews? All are Americans who have had complex ideas about land, faith and identity. Their ideas have influenced American as well as Israeli history, as these excerpts from a longer book explain.

Hall, Douglas John

A Jewish Challenge to Post-Constantinian Christianity

The Christian future "depends upon the right recall of our past," and this past has been obscured by Christendom. Christianity must learn from Judaism and reevaluate other-worldly standards of holiness and reconsider responsibility, power and authority in light of the Holocaust.

Hunter, A. Vanlier

Biblical Reflections on Theological and Religious Pluralism

What does the Bible tell us about religious pluralism? Is pluralism a modern phenomenon, something uncharacteristic of the early years of Christianity? Does pluralism represent a deterioration of an earlier unity, a falling away from ideal beginnings?

Israel

Israel Travel Notebook:
A Commentary on Archeological and Religious Sites
By A. Vanlier Hunter


The ICJS Israel Study Tour,
27 November - 6 December 1995
By Julie Tammivaara

Kogan, Michael S.

Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity

"To appeal to the Noahide Laws in dealing with Christianity today is evidence that the Jews who do so continue to ignore Christianity as a distinct movement. No Christian can recognize herself or himself in this limited list of minimal requirements for civilized life? Such a condescending attitude will make authentic dialogue impossible. Christians must be addressed as Christians, not simply as gentiles."

Preaching Colloquium

Carl Edwards, John Roberts and Peter Cullmando "Christian midrash" on some of the more difficult texts for Jewish-Christian relations in the Passion week lectionary.

Williamson, Clark

Boundaries: Doing Christian Theology with Jews