It accompanies study of the document “A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Jews and Christians” – also known as the “Twelve Points of Berlin” – which was produced by the ICCJ in 2009 along with an educational guide.
The new resource is the fruit of discernment that a revised educational guide would assist Jewish and Christian interlocutors reflecting the events and developments since the publication of the original guide.
Following the structure of “A Time for Recommitment”, the first section of the guide addresses Christians, the second Jews, and the third both Christians and Jews. Backed by theological, historical and contemporary evidence and rich in reading references and conversation points, it offers food for thought for revitalised discussion and pursuable actions in inter-religious dialogue and beyond.
The hope is that it will provide resources for students and practitioners of Jewish-Christian dialogue and, more generally, anyone committed to inter-religious understanding and co-operation.
Sister Celia Deutsch, NDS, is a member of the Theology Committee and contributor to the educational resource.
Both “A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Jews and Christians” and the new educational resource and are available on the ICCJ website.
A Time for Recommitment New educational resource
Image sources: Lutheran Parish Church of Hallstatt, Upper Austria (attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallstatt_evangelische_Kirche_20 180206.jpg); Hanukkah Lamp from Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, 1867–72 (attribution: The Jewish Museum New York, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons).