Jacques Maritain and the Jews
Edited by Robert Royal
Book Overview
Jacques Maritain, one of the most prominent twentieth-century Catholic philosophers and social theorists, played a crucial role in the development of modern Catholic teaching about the people of Israel. Today relations between Christians and Jews have reached an historically unprecedented cordiality and the seventeen essays in this volume reveal the process by which Maritain's thought and work contributed to this development. Jacques Maritain and the Jews is a thorough survey of the influence Maritain exerted on various persons inside and outside the Catholic Church, as well as the influences of the Jewish question on Maritain himself.
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Contents
Bernard Doering, “The Origin and Development of Maritain's Idea of the Chosen People”
Raymond Dennehy, “Always the Metaphysician: Maritain's Ontology of Anti-Racism”
Rabbi Leon Klenicki, “Jacques Maritain's Vision of Judaism and Anti-Semitism”
John Hellman, “‘The Jews in the ‘New Middle Ages’: Jacques Maritain's Anti-Semitism in Its Times”
Judith D. Suther, “Images of Indestructible Israel: Raïssa Maritain on Marc Chagall”
Peter A. Redpath, “Anti-Semitism, Capitalism, and Democracy”
Donald Arthur Gallagher, “The Reception of the Maritain Medal”