Week 10 (Towards a Truer and More Faithful Christian Theology of Israel) Topics and Readings

NB: This is an asynchronous class week. Credit students will be completing assignments on the Quercus discussion forums.

Topics

• Witness of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Monk Lev Gillet, et al.
• Drawing key theological insights together into an integrated Christian theology of Israel that is faithful to the Biblical narrative and significance of God’s chosen people

Readings 

A List Readings

For this asynchronous class week, please read the following (for the first class assignment):

• Chapter 7 of Christianity in Jewish Terms:
  • “Israel – Judaism and Christianity: Covenants of Redemption” by Irving Greenberg
  • “Israel, Judaism, and Christianity” by David Fox Sandmel
  • “Israel and the Church: A Christian Response to Irving Greenberg’s Covenantal Pluralism” by R. Kendall Soulen
• Chapters 1 to 3, “The Ecclesiological Challenge of Nostra Aetate,” 2, “A Stranger in a Strange (Yet Familiar) Land,” and 3, “Lumen Gentium, Gloriam Israel,” from Searching Her Own Mystery: Nostra Aetate, the Jewish People, and the Identity of the Church, by Mark S. Kinzer

 
Then read either of the following sets of readings (for the second class assignment, to prepare a suggested question for next week’s class and guest speakers):

• Rabbi Dr David Novak set:

• • “Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” by David Novak, from First Things (2019) 290:27-31
  • “Epilogue: Concluding Visions,” conclusion to Christianity in Jewish Terms, by George Lindbeck and the book’s editors
  • “On Good Supersessionism: Jews, Christians, and the Covenant That Binds Us,” chapter 12 of The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, by Thomas Joseph White (including response by David Novak)

• Rabbi Dr Mark Kinzer set:
  • “Conclusion” to Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism, by Antoine Lévy
  • “A Messianic Jewish Approach to Jewish Catholicism: Responding to Antoine Lévy’s Jewish Church,” by Mark Kinzer
  • “Towards a common Jewish house in the Body of Christ: A response to Mark Kinzer’s review of Antoine Lévy’s Jewish Church,” by Antoine Lévy
  • “Kinzer Rejoinder to Lévy,” by Mark Kinzer

 
Please note that before week 11’s class, it is expected that you will also have read and be familiar with the other set of readings that you didn’t use for this week 10 class assignment.

B List Readings

• “All the Nations? Orthodox Theology in the Wake of Nostra Aetate,” by Kevin Basil Fritts, from The Wheel (2019) 17-18:62-68
• Section VI “Ecumenical Relations and Relations with Other Faiths,” paragraph 57 from For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

C List Readings

• The Promise by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger
• Chapters 4 (“God”), 5 (“Scripture”), 6 (“Commandment”), 8 (“Worship”), 9 (“Suffering”), 10 (“Embodiment”), 11 (“Redemption”), 12 (“Sin and Repentance”), 13 (“Image of God”) from Christianity in Jewish Terms