Between studying the Bible and coping with the past : Jewish-Christian dialogue in the post-council period in Germany and Austria

Petschnigg, Edith (author)

The decades following the tragedy of the Shoah marked a crucial turning point in how Christian theology would define its approach not only to Judaism but also to the first part of Scripture – the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. Gradually, Christian churches had to confront their own centuries-old, anti-Jewish tradition and slowly came to the realization that Christianity’s anti-Judaism and the Church’s wide-spread silence in the face of the atrocities of World War II had contributed to the heinous crimes committed by the Nazi regime. Grassroot initiatives for a Jewish-Christian Dialogue are one significant result of that shift in mindset. This paper concentrates on Jewish-Christian Dialogue initiatives based on the Hebrew Bible, which were established in the years and decades after the Second Vatican Council in post-Nazi Germany as well as in post-Nazi Austria.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Jewish-Christian dialogue, grassroot initiatives, post-council period, Germany, Austria
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 221-231
• Numbering: Letn. 75, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163435
• UDC: 27-23:26(430+436)
• ISSN on article: 2335-4127
• DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/75/02/Petschnigg
• COBISS.SI-ID: 44260099
• Publication date in RUL: 07.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Edinost in dialog : revija za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog = Unity and dialogue : journal for ecumenical theology and interreligious dialogue
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Enota v Mariboru in Inštitut Stanka Janežiča za dogmatično, osnovno in ekumensko teologijo ter religiologijo in dialog
• ISSN: 2335-4127
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268194560

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Med preučevanjem Biblije in soočanjem s preteklostjo : judovsko-krščanski dialog v pokoncilskem obdobju v Nemčiji in Avstriji

Abstract

Desetletja po tragediji Šoa so pomenila ključno prelomnico v tem, kako bo krščanska teologija opredelila svoj pristop ne samo do judovstva, temveč tudi do prvega dela Svetega pisma – Stare zaveze ali hebrejske Biblije. Krščanske cerkve so se morale postopoma soočiti s svojo stoletno protijudovsko tradicijo in počasi so prišle do spoznanja, da sta krščansko protijudovstvo in razširjena tišina Cerkve ob grozodejstvih druge svetovne vojne prispevala h gnusnim zločinom, ki jih je zagrešil nacistični režim. Množične pobude za judovsko-krščanski dialog so pomemben rezultat tega premika v miselnosti. Ta članek se osredotoča na pobude judovsko-krščanskega dialoga, ki temeljijo na hebrejski Bibliji in so bile osnovane v letih in desetletjih po drugem vatikanskem koncilu v postnacistični Nemčiji in v postnacistični Avstriji.

• Keywords: judovsko-krščanski dialog, množične pobude, obdobje po koncilu, Nemčija, Avstrija