Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism
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The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church's efforts at dialogue across religions. Understanding and improving relations between the Church and the Jewish people has been a major focus of the Holy See and the Society of Jesus for many years. This book, the fruit of a major conference on the history, nature, and dynamics of relations between Jesuits and contemporary Jewish life, brings together a rich, wide-ranging selection of essays by Jesuit scholars and pastoral leaders, a leading Jewish studies scholar, and a leading rabbi. Drawing on a variety of approaches in historical and constructive theology, literary criticism, and spirituality, the contributors explore historical, philosophical, theological, cultural, and institutional themes-from Ignatian perspectives on Halakhic spirituality and the role played in Jesuit history by Jews forced to convert to Christianity to Jesuit perspectives on Hannah Arendt, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Harold Bloom.
Preface Thomas Michel, S.J. viiIntroduction Harold Kasimow 1From Windfall to Fall: The Conversos in the Society of Jesus Marc Rastoin, S.J. 8Reflections on the Dialogue between Jew and Non-Jew in the Bible and in Rabbinic Literature Rabbi Tovia Ben-Chorin 28The Goal of the Ignatian Exercises and Soloveitchik's Halakhic Spirituality Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J. 38An Ignatian Perspective on Contemporary Jewish Spirituality Donald Moore, S.J. 57The Jewish Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel as a Challenge for Catholic Theology Stanislaw Obirek 71The Genius and the Wisdom of Harold Bloom Peter Du Brul, S.J. 83From Midrash to Rashi to Contemporary Narrative Exegesis (R. Alter, M. Sternberg, et al.): Continuity in Jewish Biblical Reading Jean-Pierre Sonnet, S.J. 111Inscribe the New in the Old: Inner-Biblical Exegesis (M. Fishbane) and the Hermeneutics of Innovation (B. Levinson) Jean-Pierre Sonnet, S.J. 128A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt James Bernauer, S.J. 142What Might Israelis and Jews Learn about Christians and Christianity at Yad Vashem? David M. Neuhaus, S.J. 166Contributors 179Notes 183Index 223
