Righting Relations after the Holocaust and Vatican II

Essays in Honor of John T. Pawlikowski, OSM

Edited by Elena G. Procario-Foley and Robert A. Cathey

The idea of "righting relations" in history and creation as a particular articulation of the concept of justice is the broad theme that runs through many of John Pawlikowski's contributions to different fields of inquiry. The aftermath of both the Holocaust and Vatican II called us to reflect on relationships, both personal and institutional. How do we repair wounded relationships? What is the nature of relationships with integrity? John Pawlikowski's work as a social ethicist, scholar of the Holocaust, and specialist in interreligious dialogue is fundamentally based on the pursuit of right relationships and conditioned by responding to the moral claims of the Holocaust and Vatican II.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword.......... xiii

Judith H. Banki

Introduction .......... xix

Elena G. Procario-Foley

Abbreviations .......... xxv

PART I: ETHICS AND THEOLOGY

Chapter 1:  "Quo Vadis Humanity?" Reinhold Niebuhr and John Pawlikowski on Social Ethics in a Global Age .......... 3

Mary Doak

Chapter 2:  Pawlikowski's Christology as a Challenge to Reformed Christology .......... 21

Robert A. Cathey

Chapter 3:  A Theology of Jewish-Christian Relations: Construction of the Common Good. .......... 45

Edward Kessler

Chapter 4:  "Love Your Neighbor: This Is Yourself!" An Essay on the Interpretation of the Commandment of Love of Neighbor (Lev 19:18) from the Perspective of Lévinas's Philosophy of Alterity .......... 57

Martin M. Lintner, OSM

Chapter 5:  Welcoming Jesus Home .......... 73

Michael S. Kogan

Chapter 6:  Pedagogical/Pastoral Perspective: John Pawlikowski as Pastoral Theologian .......... 94

Jon Nilson

PART II: HOLOCAUST STUDIES

Chapter 7:  "God Isn't Fixing This": Righting Religious Differences .......... 105

John K. Roth

Chapter 8:  Hasidei Umot Haolam ("The Righteous among the Nations"): Gentiles? Christians? Who Were They? What Were They? Why Did They Do What They Did? .......... 124

Steven Leonard Jacobs

Chapter 9:  The Ethics of Interfaith Post-Holocaust Engagement .......... 138

Victoria J. Barnett

Chapter 10:  Muslim Memory and Righting Relations with the Other .......... 155

Mehnaz M. Afridi

Chapter 11:  The Purification of Memory: A Tribute to John Pawlikowski, OSM .......... 172

Katharina von Kellenbach

Chapter 12:  Pedagogical/Pastoral Perspective: Choices .......... 189

Carol Rittner, RSM

PART III: INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES

Chapter 13:  Out of the Mystery Comes the Bond: The Role of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in Shaping Nostra Aetate .......... 199

Susannah Heschel

Chapter 14:  Nostra Aetate, Omnia Mutantur: The Times They Are a-Changing .......... 226

Amy-Jill Levine

Chapter 15:  Prophetic Universalism and Particularism in Jewish Liturgy .......... 253

Ruth Langer

Chapter 16:  Puerto Rican Comings and Goings: Jewish Identities and the Complications of Diaspora .......... 270

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández and Jean-Pierre M. Ruiz

Chapter 17:  Learning from the Other: The Nostra Aetate Trajectory in Our Time .......... 298

Mary C. Boys, SNJM

Chapter 18:  Pedagogical/Pastoral Perspective: John Pawlikowski, Interfaith Leader—
A Jewish Tribute..........314

Yehezkel Landau

Afterword .......... 323

James Carroll

Contributors .......... 329