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X-WR-CALNAME:Karma Ben Johanan\, "Shifting Ground: Theology\, Politics\, an
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DESCRIPTION:Karma Ben Johanan\, "Shifting Ground: Theology\, Politics\, and
  the Future of Jewish–Christian Relations"\n\nProf. Karma Ben Johanan wi
 ll deliver the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s 14th Annual John P
 aul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations: "Shifting Ground: Theology\,
  Politics\, and the Future of Jewish–Christian Relations."\n\nSixty year
 s after Nostra Aetate\, the landmark Vatican II declaration that inaugurat
 ed a new era in Christian–Jewish relations\, the foundations of Jewish
 –Christian dialogue appear increasingly fragile. This lecture examines h
 ow the changing political\, cultural\, and demographic conditions of the p
 ostwar world have transformed the reception of Jewish-Christian dialogue a
 nd complicated the assumptions on which it originally rested. Ben Johanan 
 argues that the reconciliation between Catholics and Jews emerged within a
  particular historical constellation: a liberalizing and democratizing Eur
 ope\, a Church learning to coexist with secular modernity\, and a Jewish p
 eople rebuilding itself after the Holocaust in newly established centers o
 f life in Israel and the United States. The common ground created by this 
 moment proved extraordinarily productive\, but it was also historically co
 ntingent and more European than its participants often realized.\n\nThe su
 bsequent de-Europeanization of both Christianity and Judaism\, as well as 
 the secularization of Europe and the "religionization" of Israel and the g
 lobal crisis of liberalism have exposed deep tensions concerning the relat
 ionship between religion and culture\, competing understandings of what co
 nstitutes “religion\,” and divergent collective memories of Jewish-Chr
 istian relations. Through an analysis of these tensions\, Ben Johanan expl
 ores why the legacy of Nostra Aetate has become increasingly difficult to 
 sustain. The lecture concludes by asking whether Jewish–Christian dialog
 ue can be reimagined beyond the political and intellectual frameworks that
  originally enabled it\, and what dialogue might mean in an age marked by 
 globalization\, and the declining authority of liberal Western consensus.\
 n\nKarma Ben Johanan is an associate professor at the Department of Compar
 ative Religion at the and head of the International Office at the Faculty 
 of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses 
 on contemporary Western Christianity\, as well as on Jewish–Christian\, 
 religious–secular\, and church–state relations. Ben Johanan was awarde
 d the Dan David Prize for the Study of the Past in 2023 and the Mount Zion
  Award for her contribution to interreligious relations in 2025. Her book 
  Jacob's Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II (Cam
 bridge\, MA: Harvard University Press\, 2022)\, received the Polonsky Priz
 e for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2023)\, th
 e Catholic Media Association Award for a book on interreligious relations 
 (2023)\, and the Shazar Prize for Research in Jewish History (for the Hebr
 ew version\, 2021). It was also a finalist for the National Jewish Book Aw
 ard (2023).
LOCATION:In-Person: Heights Room\, Corcoran Commons\; Virtual: Zoom Webinar
SUMMARY:Karma Ben Johanan\, "Shifting Ground: Theology\, Politics\, and the
  Future of Jewish–Christian Relations" (HYBRID)
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 -theology-politics-and-the-future-of-jewishchristian-relations-hybrid
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