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April 2, 1976 69
Special to The Detroit Jewish 'News
Jerusalem Inter-Faith Conferences
Advance Christian-Jewish Relations
By DR. CARL VOSS
(Editor's note: Dr. Voss
is professor of philosophy
and religion and chairman
of the humanities division
at Edward Waters College
in Jacksonville, Fla., and
a member of Christians
Concerned for Israel. On
leave for the year 1976, he
is a resident scholar at the
Ecumenical Institute for
Advanced Theological
studies at Tantur.)
JERUSALEM — An his-
toric series of conferences
took place recently in Jeru-
salem when representatives
from world Jewish organi-
zations and foremost lead-
ers of the world Protestant
church groups and the Cath-
olic Church gathered.
The unique feature of the
meetings lay in the fact that
for the first time in their
history the Protestants'
World Council of Churches
and the Vatican agreed they
would meet with Jewish de-
legates in Israel, and specif-
ically in the City of Jerusa-
lem. During one week the
meetings were held with
Protestant-Jewish represen-
tation, and the next week
with Catholic-Jewish dele-
gates.
The pattern for such
gatherings began in the
1960s when leading figures
in the Christian churches
and among Jewish groups
expressed a desire for dia-
logue on a wide range of
subjects.
The initial consultations
took place in 1965, in
Switzerland, when Protes-
tants, from their World
and
Council of Churches head-
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with representatives of the
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of Christianity and Juda-
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ism. The Catholic-Jewish
meetings, however, began
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almost a decade later, while
the Protestant-Jewish dia-
logues continued biennially.
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inasmuch as world Jewry is
not constituted like the
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Christian communities with
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That problem was soon
solved, however, when in
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1969 the World Jewish Con-
gress, the American Jewish
Committee and Bnai Brith's
PARTIES
Anti-Defamation League
joined with the Synagogue
CONVENTIONS
Council of America to form
BAR-MITZVAHS,
the "International Jewish
Committee on Interreligious
ETC.
Consultations," a consor-
We guarantee it will be tium known thereafter as
IJCIC.
the talk of the occasion.
Israeli participation was
assured by the organization
of the Jewish Council in Is-
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accorded to the council by
the Foreign Ministry and wider patterns of 'relation-
ships in the future.
the Ministry of Religions.
They stated that their
Regular meetings have
been scheduled every two colleagues believe such
years between the IJCIC "wider patterns" will lead
and World Council of to deeper mutual under-
Churches representatives, standing, combat prejudi-
centering on a chosen cies, prevent misconcep-
theme and inviting distin- tions, and aid both
guished scholars from Christians and Jews to
both groups to present live together within the
context of a wider, more
their views.
In alternate years smaller understanding commu-
committee sessions are held nity.
They said their associates
to take up matters concern-
ing Protestant-Jewish rela- had chosen several themes
tionships, such as "Biblical for consideration by future
Interpretation and Its Bear- meetings, the leading two of
ing on Christian Attitudes which were "Relations Be-
Regarding the Middle East" tween Churches and the
and "Jerusalem in Christian Jewish People in the Wider
and Jewish Traditions." Context of the Human Com-
These are burning issues, munity" and "Christian and
for in parts of Protestant- Jewish Traditions About
ism some strongly negative Creation in Relation to
attitudes are expressed; and Science and Technology."
In a discussion centering
Israel itself is often the cen-
ter of highly critical atten- on the Nairobi meetings of
tion in the sessions of the the World Council of
smaller, alternate-year Churches, there was general
agreement that the fact that
groups.
These developments were the Council did not pass a
not unheeded by the Vati- resolution refuting or op-
can, and in the early 1970s, posing the statement of Dr.
Pope Paul VI appointed a Philip A. Potter, the WCC
"Commission on Religious general secretary, in Geneva
on Nov. 11, urging the
Relations With Judaism."
Annual consultations United Nations to rescind
have been held, in Paris in the General Assembly reso-
1972, Marseilles in 1973, lution that "Zionism is a
Antwerp in 1974, Rome in form of racism and racial
1975, and Jerusalem this discrimination," meant that
year simultanteously with Dr. Potter's statement could
the Protestants — but sepa- be regarded as official WCC
policy.
rately.
The Protestant group was
On this occasion the three
groups did meet at recep- headed by Dr. Krister Sten-
tions of the Israel Interfaith dahi, dean of the Harvard
Committee and the Ecu- Divinity School, and in-
menical Theological Re- cluded Dr. von Hammer-
search Fraternity in Beit stein, Dr. Ellen Flessman-
Shalom on Ahad Ha'am St. van Leer, leader among lay-
women in Holland, Dr.
in Jerusalem.
They assembled with Stanley J. Samartha of In-
similar informality for a dia, director of the WCC
weekend at the Orthodox Program on Dialogue- with
Kibutz Lavi, in the Lower People of Living Faiths and
Ideologies; Dr. Lukas
Galilee.
At Lavi the discussions Vischer of the WCC staff in
centered on "The Religious Geneva; and Dr. Coos Scho-
Kibbutz As A Way of Re- neveld, secretary of the Ecu-
newal of Jewish Religious menical Theological Re-
Life." The give-and-take of search Fraternity in
the meetings was stimulat- Jerusalem.
The Jewish Interna-
ing and constructive.
All the meetings, save tional Committee, headed
one, were held at the Martin by Rabbi Joseph Look-
Buber Center of the Hebrew stein, chancellor of Bar-
University on Mount Sco- Ilan University, included
pus. The exception was the Dr. Riegner and Dr. Na-
last day of the Catholic-Jew- than Lerner from the
ish discussions when the World Jewish Congress;
Jewish delegates met with Dr. Zachariah Shuster
not only the Roman Catho- and Dr. Bernard Resnikoff
lic delegates but also repre- of the American Jewish
sentatives of the Uniate Committee; Dr. Ernst L.
churches — Maronites, Ehrlich and Dr. Joseph
Melkites, Nestorians, Copts Lichten of the Anti-Defa-
mation League of Bnai
and Greek Catholics.
When the sessions of the Brith; Rabbi Balfour
representatives of the World Brickner and Rabbi Henry
Council of Churches and the Siegman of the Synago-
International Jewish Com- guge Council of America;
mittee for Interreligious and Dr. N.A. Chouraqui,
Consultations were con- and Professors Shemary-
cluded, the spokesman for ahu Talmon and Zvi Web-
the two groups, Dr. Franz lowsky of the Jewish
von Hammerstein, secre- Council in Israel for Inter-
tary of the World Council's religious Consultations.
The Catholic group was
Committee on the Churches
and the Jewish People, and headed by Bishop Ramon
Dr. Gerhart Riegner, secre- Torella of Spain, vice presi-
tary-general of the World dent of the Vatican Secre-
Jewish Congress, recom- tariat for Christian Unity.
mended that their sponsor- It included, among others,
ing organizations engage in Father Pierre de Conten-
son, secretary of the Vati-
can's Commission for Juda-
ism; Father Edward
Flannery of the U.S. Na-
tional Conference of Catho-
lic Bishops; Bishop Francis
Mugavero of Brooklyn; and
Father Marcel Dubois of
Jerusalem. along with six
others.
When the meetings of the
International Catholic-Jew-
ish Liaison Committee were
completed several days after
the joint Catholic-Protes-
tant-Jewish informal week-
end at Kibbutz Lavi, the
spokesmen, Bishop Torrella
and Rabbi Lookstein, an-
nounced their "deep joy over
the historical and religious
significance of the fact that
we have met for the first
time in the Holy City of
Jerusalem."
They noted that the main
subject of this fifth consul-
tation was an assessment of
major developments in
Catholic-Jewish relations
since the publication of the
"Declaration on the Rela-
tions of the Church with
Judaism" by the Second
Vatican Council in 1965.
They pointed out that
the 12 Catholics chosen by
the Vatican and the 17
Jewish leaders sent by
their world organizations
hailed the statements of
various authorities of the
Catholic Church who had
repudiated the resolution
of the UN General Assem-
bly equating Zionism with
racism; at the same time,
the Committees expressed
grave concern over the ef-
forts of many nations to
defame Israel and the
Jewish people, and to iso-
late the Israelis from the
international community.
In addition, the liaison
Committee of Catholics and
Jews spoke with satisfac-
tion of the disavowal by the
Holy See of paragraphs 20
and 21 in the Declaration, so
hostile and inimical to Is-
rael, of the Seminar on the
Islamic-Christian Dialogue
held in Tripoli, Libya, Feb.
1-5.
Members of the Commit-
tee agreed that an impor-
tant subject to be taken up
at their next meeting, prob-
ably to be held in early 1977
in Holland, would be a more
extended examination of
"the issues of mission and
witness" which stem from
the Christian desire to
spread Christianity among
other peoples of the world
by conversion.
Throughout the meetings,
receptions, and excursions,
as I accompanied the dele-
gations to Beit Shalom, Ki-
butz Lavi, and Tantur, and
saw these representative
Jews. Catholics and Protes-
tants working and thinking
together, I recalled Isaiah:
"Come,. let us reason to-
gether," and the Psalmist:
"Behold how good and how
pleasant it is for brothers to
dwell together in unity."
(See Commentary, Page 2)