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When I said to a friend that that I was writing a paper on the impact of the Holocaust on the Church of England1 , her answer was ‘Has there been any?’ Alan Ecclestone also in his The Night Sky of the Lord — a book we shall consider — says ‘it is difficult to find evidence of a realistic approach to the Jewish problem or to show how it has affected the learning processes of the churches in Britain.’ I think this is somewhat unfair because there has been a real attempt to purge the church’s teaching and liturgy of its traditional anti-Judaism and some effort to learn about Judaism as a living religion. There has been little reflection, however, on the more properly theological question of how God’s character and purpose for the world is to be understood in the shadow of the Shoah.
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Alan Ecclestone, The Night Sky of the Lord (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1980), p.10.
Graham James, ‘Tilling the Ground of Dialogue: Reviewing a Fertile Period’, in Christian-Jewish Dialogue: a Reader, ed. Helen Fry (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996), pp.277–283.
James Parkes, The Conflict of Church and Synagogue (London: The Socino Press, 1934).
Robert A Everett, Christianity Without Anti-Semitism (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993), p. 191.
John Hadham (Parkes’s nome de plume) Voyages of Discovery (London: Victor Gollancz, 1969), p. 123.
James Parkes, Anti-Semitism: A Concise World History (London: Vallentine Mitchell 1963), p.60.
James Parkes, A History of the Jewish People (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962).
James Parkes, Prelude to Dialogue: Jewish-Christian Relationship, (London: Vallentine Mitchell 1969), p.208.
Hugh Monteflore, On Being A Jewish Christian (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p.15; see also pp.99–100.
Peter Schneider, Sweeter Than Honey (London: SCM Press, 1966), p.113.
Heinrich Graetz, The History of the Jews, ed. and tr. Bella Loewy, 5 vols (London: David Nutt, 1891), vol 2, p.lSS.
Joseph Klausner, Jesus of Nazareth, ed. and tr. H Danby (London: Allen and Unwin, 1925);
Scholem Asch, The Nazarene, ed. and tr. Maurice Samuel (London: Routledge, 1939).
Ulrich Simon, A Theology of Auschwitz (London: SPCK, 1978; first published London: Victor Gollancz, 1967).
Ulrich Simon, Atonement: From Holocaust to Paradise (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1987).
Anthony Philips, ‘Forgiveness Reconsidered’, Christian—Jewish Relations, Vol 19, No 1, p.17, quoting from Common Ground (CCJ, London), 22/3 (1968): 4.
See Braybrooke, ‘The Power of Suffering Love’ in Dialogue With a Difference, eds. Tony Bayfield and Marcus Braybrooke (London: SCM Press, 1992). I am much influenced by Jewish thinkers such as Arthur A Cohen and Hans Jonas.
Alan Ecclestone, The Night Sky of the Lord (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1980), p.134.
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Braybrooke, M. (2001). The Impact of the Holocaust on the Church of England. In: Roth, J.K., Maxwell, E., Levy, M., Whitworth, W. (eds) Remembering for the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_96
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