IL RAPPORTO TRA CRISTIANI ED EBREI NEI DOCUMENTI DEL CONSIGLIO ECUMENICO DELLE CHIESE

Abstract

This article examines World Council of Churches (WCC) policy regarding the Jewish people throughout the analysis of produced documentation by WCC since 1948. There are different documents written from various WCC programme areas, as a consequence, to grasp the essence of a single WCC document, one has to establish which mode is prevailing in the policy logic of that document. The analysis of the different documentation reveals how much this relationship is changed during the years, evolving in something of completely different from the past to nowadays. At the beginning, the focus was antisemitism and Shoah, than the different theology and now the comprehension of the different identities between Christian and Jewish Communities. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES’ DOCUMENTSAbstractThis article examines World Council of Churches (WCC) policy regarding the Jewish people throughout the analysis of produced documentation by WCC since 1948. There are different documents written from various WCC programme areas, as a consequence, to grasp the essence of a single WCC document, one has to establish which mode is prevailing in the policy logic of that document. The analysis of the different documentation reveals how much this relationship is changed during the years, evolving in something of completely different from the past to nowadays. At the beginning, the focus was antisemitism and Shoah, than the different theology and now the comprehension of the different identities between Christian and Jewish Communities.