The release of two stunning new statements, one by the Vatican and one by The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding & Dialogue (CJCUC) constitutes a Chanukah miracle and a “cease fire” of theological hostility which has characterized the relationship between the Church and the Jewish people for most of the last two thousand years. Listen to excerpts from the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews’ new paper titled “The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable” and the response from the CJCUC paper “To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians.”
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (Romans 11:29)
Read both papers in full:
Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Jews: The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable
CJCUC: To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven
Read Rabbi Mark Kinzer's book on Nostra Aetate, Messianic Judaism, and the Catholic Church
Rabbi Mark Kinzer: Searching Her Own Mystery
