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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Nostra Aetate, Vatican II's declaration on the Church's relationship with other religions, initiated a new stage in Catholic-Jewish relations. This relationship has been one marked by dialogue and the search for common ground. This has been continued by Pope Benedict. This same Pope has suggested that the documents of Vatican II can be interpreted through a hermeneutic of renewal in continuity or a hermeneutic of rupture. In this essay Nostra Aetate is examined through these two hermeneutics, and suggests that dialogue has become detached from evangelization. Pope Benedict's call for a Court of the Gentiles, borrowing from Judaism and the Temple, is examined and offered as useful for a new stage in Catholic-Jewish relations. The Court of the Gentiles provides us with new channels of dialogue and places the person of Jesus at the centre, as attempted by Rabbi Jacob Neusner. Finally, the mariological dimension of Nostra Aetate and Pope Benedict's writings is presented as an essential aspect of Catholic-Jewish dialogue which has been neglected.
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