From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965

by John Connelly and John Connelly

Book Overview

In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the most enormous, yet undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history?

The radical shift of Vatican II grew out of a buried history, a theological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057821
• ISBN13: 9780674057821
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.4"