Abstract
In reflecting on the Christological statements in Nostra Aetate, §4 and on their implications, both the strongest link between Christians and Jews and their deepest difference have become apparent to Christian theology. The essential Christian conviction that the crucified and risen Jesus Christ is the Messiah and beyond that the Incarnate Son of God is not only denied by Jews, but is incomprehensible for them. Jewish objections have caused Christian theology to ask whether it is possible for it to say something positive as regards Jewish hope in the Messiah, a hope which also says “no” to Christians’ faith in Christ. The Pontifical Biblical Commission picked up on this question in a positive way in its text of the year 2001, The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible. In addition, Jewish criticism of the Christian idea of the Incarnation, not least in discussions of shituf ("association"), has brought a new awareness of the importance for Christian-Jewish dialogue of the teaching of the Council of Chalcedon on the preservation of the character of each nature unified in Christ.
Highlights
If you go back from the present-day Christological discussion in the context of Christian-Jewish dialogue to the text of the Council’s Declaration Nostra Aetate, §4, you might be surprised at how brief the Christological statements in this text are
Christology is central to Nostra Aetate, §4
This reference to a Christology of the Incarnation has its own place in the history of how Nostra Aetate has been theologically effective
Summary
...The Christian must understand this, even though he himself This is how, in their 1980 declaration on the relationship of the Church to Judaism, the German bishops described the link of communion between Judaism and Christianity and its opposite where Christian faith in Jesus Christ is concerned. In so doing, they gave two titles to Jesus Christ: Messiah and Son of God. Christian-Jewish disagreement centers on these two Christological titles, though they do not have equal weight. Theology and dialogue do deal with the theme of the Messiah
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