Why does the Catholic Church rapidly change their attitude toward Judaism and Jews? Are Jews truly “older brothers” of Christians, and if so, what would that mean? The problem of the Church's attitude towards Jews was discussed in PCh24 tv ed. Paweł Lisicki.
Paweł Lisicki was a guest of Paweł Chmielewski on PCh24 TV. The conversation afraid the Catholic Church's relation to Jews after planet War II in the context of the fresh book by Paweł Lisicki, “The story of Older Brothers in Faith” published by the publishing home “Frond”.
Paweł Lisicki pointed out that the fresh attitude of the Church towards Jews and Judaism had been worked out for years, and it all started after planet War II. A key function was played by the later author of 2 very crucial papers of the Second Vatican Council (Nostra aetate, Dignitatis humanae), German cardinal Augustin Bea. Bea had talks with the chief rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff, who persuaded him to change the Church's approach to the judaic problem. At the council itself, the cardinal collaborated with John Oesterreicher and Gregory Baum, who had judaic background; they played a crucial function in editing key documents. In fact, any changes took place before the Council, behind the pontificate of John XXIII, who listened to the judaic community asking for a fresh approach. The Pope led to a change in the Friday prayer for “faithful Jews”, introducing a key “correction”, i.e. removing the word “faithful”. Later there were further changes.
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As ed. Paweł Chmielewski pointed out, the Germans played a key function here, which can be understood due to the Holocaust. The question, however, is why Poles became so active in building this "new approach". In 1986, St. John Paul II met with Rabbi Toaf, which was rather courteous; the pope did not go there beyond general polite formulas, characteristic of diplomatic meetings at specified a level. Later, however, there was a change. – possibly it is the influence of modernist theology, possibly something else. In 1986, there was a gathering in the Roman synagogue, where key words about Jews as our older brothers were given," he said.
Paul Lisicki recalled that then St.John Paul II said that the Jews are "in a certain sense" our older brothers in faith, which implied that in a sense they are not. However, in subsequent statements of these objections there were no more; it was simply said that the Jews were our older brothers in the religion – and already. As the author of the book “The story of Older Brothers in Faith” stated Old Testament Jews may be considered specified brothers – patriarchs, prophets, kings of Judah and Israel. As St. Thomas taught, they believed in the Messiah to come, and we believed in the Messiah to come. The problem is that in the statements of the people of the Church there was absolutely no discrimination between ancient and contemporary Jews.
Unfortunately, there's been specified a unusual situation that the card. Grzegorz Ryś announced in 1 of his books that the sine qua non-Holocaust condition was Christianity. As Lisicki explained, this was indeed a repetition of the judaic thesis, which says that Christianity is immanently anti-Semitic.
It is crucial to separate between old Testamentism and rabbinic Judaism. As Paul Lisicki explained, for the Jews the cezure is the demolition of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 years after Christ. Then the old form of Judaism, focused on the temple, falls and something completely fresh begins to be born. – A modified religion emerges, another, where there is no direct mention to the Bible, begins to form the full strategy of explanation of the law, later included in the Talmud. The Talmud is the writing to which the Jews now refer, not so straight to the Bible, but to the Talmud. - He said.
Rabbinic Judaism, even in the version preached by liberal Jews specified as Franz Rosenzweig or Martin Buber, has a very strong racial or cultural component; therefore, for example, the Noachite movement is promoted today—the thought that Judaism is for Jews, and for non-Jews—noachitism, a kind of religion invented by Jews, referring to the Bible, being a way for those who cannot “unify” with God through blood, through belonging to ethnos. Therefore, it is completely incomprehensible how rabbinic Judaism can be mixed with old Testamentism and indicates that modern Jews are “older brothers” of Christians in faith.
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