Center Activities

• Invitational conferences for Jewish and Christian scholars to develop new theologies of the Christian and Jewish relationship.
• Courses in which Jews and Christians study their own faith traditions with students from the other, related faith tradition, and guided by teams of Christian and Jewish professors. These can be used for major, minor, and concentration options on the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• A major web site to foster Jewish and Christian relations, including a documents library, articles, course syllabi, current news, book reviews, related links, and educational and research resources.
• Sponsorship of the research work of the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations.
• Sponsorship of theological and educational research in collaboration with other universities and research centers, nationally and internationally.
• Regular presentations by guest speakers to enrich and encourage dialogue among faculty and students.
• Collaborative programming with regional institutions and religious bodies to promote Christian and Jewish amity in various contexts.

Future Activities:

• One visiting and two permanent professorial chairs in Christian and Jewish relations.
• Research fellowships to leading theologians studying issues of the Jewish and Christian relationship.
• Degrees or certificates in Jewish and Christian relations
• Overseas study tours.

"The brief suggestions of the [Second Vatican] Council have been taken up by some theologians, but their implications for theological renewal have not yet been fully explored. . . . There is here a task incumbent on theologians, as yet hardly begun, to explore the continuing relationship of the Jewish people with God and their spiritual bonds with the New Covenant and the fulfillment of God's plan for both Church and Synagogue."

- N.C.C.B., Statement on Catholic-Jewish Relations(1975)