Seeking Shalom: The Journey to Right Relationship Between Catholics and Jews

In this book Philip Cunningham traces the remarkable developments in Christian-Jewish relations over the last fifty years. Centuries of antipathy and suspicion have largely given way to a new, mutually enriching relationship between the two ancient traditions of Judaism and Christianity.A specialist in Christian-Jewish relations, Cunningham tells this complex story in light of both Scripture and theology, including especially the disciplines of Christology, ecclesiology, and soteriology. His informed discussion covers the period from Vatican II, particularly its momentous 1965 Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions ("Nostra Aetate"), up to the present day.After fifty years of significant dialogue, Cunningham suggests, Christians and Jews are now on the threshold of building true "shalom" between their two communities, experiencing the Holy One anew in each other's distinctive and edifying ways of walking with God."