This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac. This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than fifteen centuries old, of anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial varieties of anti-Semitism. Prior to Isaacs thought and activism, this contemptuous tradition had never been denounced in so compelling a manner that the Church was forced to address it. It is a story of loss and triumph, and ultimately, unlikely partnership.
Isaac devoted his years after World War II to a crusade for scriptural truth and rectification of Christian teaching regarding Jews and Judaism. Isaacs crusade culminated in an unpublicized audience with Pope John XXIIIa meeting that moved the pope to make a last-minute addition to the Second Vatican Council agenda and set in motion the events leading to a revolution in Catholic teaching about Jews.
CHAPTER 1: On the Threshold of a Sacred Mission
CHAPTER 2: The Formative Years P?guy 1877-1902
CHAPTER 3: From Academe to Activism 1902-1940
CHAPTER 4: From Citizen to Leper 1940-1943
CHAPTER 5: The Catastrophe 1943-1945
CHAPTER 6: Gospel Reality
CHAPTER 7: J?sus et Isra?l
CHAPTER 8: The Resonance of J?sus et Isra?l
CHAPTER 9: A First Papal Audience
CHAPTER 10: Mission Accomplished
CHAPTER 11: Quaestiones de Iudaeis
CHAPTER 12: Salvation is from the Jews
CHAPTER 13: The Rest of the Backstory
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