• Introduction
  • Point 1
    A Call to Christians and Christian Communities to Combat Religious, Racial, and All Other Forms of Antisemitism – Biblically, Liturgically, and Catechetically.
  • Point 2
    A Call to Christians and Christian Communities to Promote Interreligious Dialogue with Jews
  • Point 3
    A Call to Christians and Christian Communities to Develop Theological Understandings of Judaism that Affirm Its Distinctive Integrity
  • Point 4
    A Call to Christians and Christian Communities to Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
  • Point 5
    A Call to Jews and Jewish Communities to Acknowledge the Efforts of Many Christian Communities in the Late 20th Century to Reform Their Attitudes Toward Jews
  • Point 6
    A Call to Jews and Jewish Communities to Acknowledge the Efforts of Many Christian Communities in the Late 20th Century to Reform Their Attitudes Toward Jews
  • Point 7 and 8
    A Call to Jews and Jewish Communities to Differentiate between Fair-Minded Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism and to Offer Encouragement to the State of Israel as It Works to Fulfill the Ideals Stated in Its Founding Documents, a Task Israel Shares with Many Nations of the World
  • Point 9
    A Call To Both Christian and Jewish Communities and Others... to commit ourselves to the following goals and invite Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with all people of faith and goodwill, always to respect the other and to accept each other’s differences and dignity.
  • Point 10
    A Call To Both Christian and Jewish Communities and Others... to commit ourselves to the following goals and invite Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with all people of faith and goodwill, always to respect the other and to accept each other’s differences and dignity.
  • Point 11
    A Call To Both Christian and Jewish Communities and Others... to commit ourselves to the following goals and invite Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with all people of faith and goodwill, always to respect the other and to accept each other’s differences and dignity.
  • Point 12
    A Call To Both Christian and Jewish Communities and Others... to commit ourselves to the following goals and invite Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with all people of faith and goodwill, always to respect the other and to accept each other’s differences and dignity.

Jewish - Christian - ... Muslim?

There's a certain balance conceptually and aesthetically to the structure of The Twelve Points. Four, four and four. Calls to Christians, calls to Jews, calls to both together. Three movements as in a musical work. And thus – as in music – as in any representation that involves a structure, there is some repetition. Though, again as in musical repetition, the returning formulations are not redundant. Even when it’s the same exact words, repetition builds in us in such a way that we hear a difference, intensification and recognition that's not identical to the first time we encountered the phrasing. Here the wording is not exactly the same as what came before. We also encounter that in music; sometimes we get the same exact notes repeated – though even there we hear them differently each time. But sometimes there is indeed repetition with variation. One or several notes are different in their very form. And so something new is suggested, a nuance is evoked.

For example, what do you think of the specific invitation addressed to Muslims? Ought Jews and Christians enlarge their circle of dialogue to include Muslims? Or would a better model be to have three bilateral conversations: Christian-Jewish, Jewish-Muslim, Muslim-Christian? Both? Neither?

The ICCJ has recently decided to revive our Abrahamic Forum, in which we would engage in Dialogue with Muslims, without losing the unique and specific relationship of Christians and Jews.

(see: http://www.iccj.org/Abrahamic-Forum.3410.0.html)

Other useful resources:
www.abrahamicfamilyreunion.org
as well as
www.sfcg.org (Partners in Humanity.) 

Conceptually we are returning to the very ideas – in their general direction as well as in significant instances, explorations of what more specifically might be at stake in these major themes; so that for the most part we refer you to all that comes before in our guide to the previous challenges of The Twelve. What we will engage separately vis-à-vis these remaining four calls is the one theme that is rather new in each. In this the ninth challenge we see as rather distinctly highlighted 'the foundational truth that each human being is created in the image of God.' From this principle, all else that is represented in the ninth call derives.

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