THRS 3309 - A Narrow Bridge: Jewish-Catholic Engagement

5 credit hours
This course traces the long and difficult relationship between the Jewish and Catholic worlds. Beginning with the advent of Christianity, these two global communities usually interacted with strife and violence. The reality is, this hostility was mostly uni-directional: the Church against the Jews. This is a difficult legacy to grapple with today, but it is at the forefront of important work over the last fifty years. No other Christian community has put as much effort into building a bridge to Jews as has the Catholic church. The purpose of this class is, therefore, to develop an understanding of the history of this relationship, to think critically about what inter-community engagement can and should look like, and to wrestle with the process of addressing a painful past for the sake of a better future. ID, WR

Prerequisite Course(s): UCOR 2100