Date of Award
2005
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Colby Access Only)
Department
Colby College. Religious Studies Dept.
Advisor(s)
Debra Campbell
Second Advisor
Larissa Taylor
Abstract
It is important to assert that this study is not a work to inflict guilt on the Catholics or Catholicism for their silence and indifference during the Holocaust. Instead, this study is about the process of moving on from the Catholic Church's past to where the Jewish community's theological existence was finally recognized and the Jewish people were no longer seen as the Others who killed Christ. This was, achieved through a church declaration titled Nostra Aetate (In Our Time). This study records the journey traversed by this declaration, the insurmountable odds it faced in its creation until its promulgation and the impact it has on the Jewish-Christian relationship.
Keywords
Christian-Jewish Relations, Nostra Aetate, Catholic Church
Recommended Citation
Yeoh, Christopher Rodney, "Opening the Windows of the Church to the World: The Creation of Nostra Aetate and Its Impact on the Christian-Jewish relationship" (2005). Honors Theses. Paper 550.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/550
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