Contents
Preface by H. B. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM
Introduction by Gavin D’Costa and Faydra L. Shapiro
Part I. Listening Again to Scripture
1. The Return to the Land of Israel as an Eschatological Sign in the Light of Romans 11 | Lawrence Feingold
2. Land and Redemption: Why Does God Promise a Land? | Etienne Vetö, CCN
3. The Relationship of Israel to the Promised Land after Christ: Catholic Questionings | Jean-Miguel Garrigues, OP, and Eliana Kurylo, CB
4. The Resurrected Land of Israel | Isaac Vikram Chenchiah
Part II. Mining the Tradition
5. Land and State of Israel: Theological Reflections from a Roman Catholic Perspective | Christian M. Rutishauser, SJ
6. Terra Viventium: Biblical Promises, Fulfillment, and Thomas Aquinas’s Christological Interpretation of the Land | Matthew A. Tapie
7. The Catholic Church and “Israel/Palestine”: The Jewish People, the Land, Nation, and State | Gavin D’Costa
8. Does a Catholic Theology of Sacraments Help to Achieve an Affirmative Approach to the State of Israel? | Dirk Ansorge
Part III. Seeking Justice and Peace
9. A Catholic Perspective on the People, Land, and State of Israel | David Mark Neuhaus, SJ
10. Tractatio Theologico-Politica: Palestinian Suffering and the Official Catholic Teaching on the State of Israel | Antoine Lévy, OP
11. Christian Communities in Israel and Palestine | H. B. Michel Sabbah, Patriarch Emeritus
12. Christian-Jewish Relations from a Christian Palestinian Perspective | Jamal Khader
Part IV. In Conversation: Jewish Responses
13. Jewish-Christian Relations and the Irrevocable Problem of Political Theology | Karma Ben Johanan
14. Jews, Catholics, and Israel: Can We Find a Shared Language? | Faydra L. Shapiro
Selected Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index