By Norman C. Tobias
This e-book offers the backstory of the way the Catholic Church got here to elucidate and embody the position of Israel in salvation historical past, on the behest of an not likely character: Jules Isaac. This embody placed to an finish the culture, greater than fifteen centuries outdated, of anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial kinds of anti-Semitism. sooner than Isaac’s concept and activism, this contemptuous culture had by no means been denounced in so compelling a fashion that the Church was once compelled to deal with it. it's a tale of loss and triumph, and eventually, not going partnership.
Isaac committed his years after international struggle II to a campaign for scriptural fact and rectification of Christian instructing relating to Jews and Judaism. Isaac’s campaign culminated in an unpublicized viewers with Pope John XXIII—a assembly that moved the pope to make a last-minute addition to the second one Vatican Council time table and set in movement the occasions resulting in a revolution in Catholic educating approximately Jews.
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