Dr. Arthur Ilertzherg to Address
• udel ► -Christion Lert.i re Series
Dr. Arthur Hertzberg, a member ated as the President's Scholar
o f th e graduate faculty of Colum- ! and Phi Beta Kappa from John
In a University, will speak on "Is- Hopkins University, he served as
racl. Religion, Nation and People- Billet director at Smith College
hood . ' for the Judeo-Christian • and chaplain in the U.S. Air Force.
Lecture Series, 8
He is currently rabbi of Temple
p.111. Wednesday
Emanu-El of Englewood, N.J.
at McGregor Cen-
Rabbi Hertzberg is author of
ter, Wayne State
"The Outbursts That Await
university.
Us," and "The French Enlight-
As a contribu-
enment and the Jews," which re-
tor to many na-
ceived the Antra m Award as the
tionally known
best work of nonfiction in the
magazines, Dr.
Jewish field.
Hertzberg is
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II eirokurs _4/inounce
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Hanuka Celebration
remember Planters, the 100 per
The eighth annual Ilanuka cele-
bration of Americans for Progres-
sive Israel — Hashomer Ilatzair
will be held 8:30 p.m. Dec. 13, at
the Jewish Center. •
The musical program will be
highlighted by folk singer Arena
Barley. Also participating in the
Barley.
musical program will be Mordecai
Tel-Tsur, head of the Center He-
brew Department, who will pre-
sent Hanuka and Israeli songs on
his accordion. The evening will in-
clude latkes, prizes, greetings from
Israel and Israeli dancing. Guests
are welcome. For information call
Devera Stocker, 864-8035.
-widely known to
Pius XII Religious Education
audiences of
Center is sponsoring the Judeo-
many faiths. Hertzberg Christian Series in cooperation
lie is president of the Conference with the American Jewish Conl-
on Jewish Social Studies. Gradu- millee and its Detroit Chapter.
Rabbi Jacob Agus Finds Parallels
in Jewish, Christian Traditions
A scholar's analysis of the paral-
lel concepts in Judaism and Chris-
tianity Was presented Wednesday
night at St. Paul's Cathedral as
the third in a series of eight lec-
tures in Judeo-Christian Studies
sponsored by the Pius XII Reli-
gious Education Center.
The speaker was Rabbi Jacob
Agus of Beth El Congregation in
Baltimore, nationally known lec-
turer on the philosophy of religion
and consulting editor for the En-
cyclopedia Britannica on articles
concerning Judaism and Jewish
history.
Pointing to the long history of
Jewish-Christian disputation on
theological matters, which he de-
scribed as a "family quarrel" and
therefore "more impassioned than
disputes among strangers," Dr.
Agus stated that his purpose was
"neither to discover identities nor
to harp upon differences, but to
call attention to some interesting
parallels, whereby similar truths
were articulated in diverse dog-
mas and institutions."
"Exponents of both Judaism
and Christianity generally re-
gard the doctrine of God as one
of the deepest canyons extend-
ing between the two faiths,"
Dr. Agus declared. "The gulf
between the Jewish stress on
Divine unity and the Christian
doctrine of the Trinity remains
deep and unbridgeable."
At the same time, he pointed
out that the Christian concept of
God was borrowed from .Jildaism.
and that in the evolution of the
Jewish concept of God, He has
been credited with many separate
and diverse qualities.
As early as the pre-Christian
period, Dr. Agus stated, the sages
had speculated on the diverse na-
ture of God.
"Even then, the contrast was
felt between the concept of God
that emerges from the contem-
plation of nature, more or less
after the fashion of the Aristote-
lians. and the concept that
emerges from our contemplation
of human nature as a dim and
feeble 'image' of the Greater," he
said.
Similarly,
"the philosopher
Kant spoke of the two ultimate
sources of belief in God — the
starry heavens above and the
Jr
Although both the Talmud and
Midrash "reaffirm the biblical
contention that there is but one
Chosen People," the Midrash also
"asserts that God had sent pro-
phets to the nations even as He
sent Moses to Israel," Dr. Agus
explained.
He also cited the medieval Jew-
ish philosopher, Joseph Albo, who *
"acknowledged the possibility of : 1‘,.
two divine faiths or covenants,.
both equally true, providing they
were addressed to different peo- *
ple.
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In the evolution of Jewish zine. has joined the staff of Yaffe
thought, however, it was acknowl-
edged that "God was one in all
His manifestations."
Both the rabbinic and New
Testament traditions subscribe to
the belief that "God chooses cer-
tain people, predisposing them
and their descendants to a super-
ior status and to a special degree
of closeness to Him so that they
may be called His 'sons,' Dr.
Agus stated.
While Christians believe that
preferred status in the sight of
God is achieved through baptism
and the confession of Jesus as
Lord, the Jews stress the need for
learning and practice of Torah, he
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Both religions believe that those
who are "chosen" are not given
material preferments but an op-
portunity to labor and to suffer
for the sake of His Kingdom. In
Christianity God's election is an
invitation to take up the Cross
and to share in the redemptive
suffering of the Savior. In the Tal-
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employs as His instruments the
"torments of love" as well as the
Shaarit Haplayta Maps
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