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Tributes In Memory Of Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D., Lawrence Frizzell Nov 2022

Tributes In Memory Of Rabbi Asher Finkel, Ph.D., Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Father Lawrence E. Frizzell, through the auspices of the Msgr. Oesterreicher Endowment, edited a booklet of tributes by colleagues and alumni of the Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program in the memory of Rabbi Asher Finkel.


2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 3, Lawrence Frizzell May 2018

2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 3, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The Rev. Dr. Lawrence E. Frizzell facilitated the 2018 Faculty Summer Seminar on Interfaith Relations at Seton Hall University. In this presentation, Fr. Frizzell reviews a key document from the Second Vatican Council, "The Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions" (Nostra Aetate), with a focus on the introductory sections (added for a revision of the draft in 1964) and attention to the Golden Rule in the religions of the world.


2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 2, Lawrence Frizzell May 2018

2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 2, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The Rev. Dr. Lawrence E. Frizzell facilitated the 2018 Faculty Summer Seminar on Interfaith Relations at Seton Hall University. In this presentation, Fr. Frizzell continues his review of a key document from the Second Vatican Council, "The Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions" (Nostra Aetate), with a focus on the Church's encounter with the Jewish people.


2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 1, Lawrence Frizzell May 2018

2018 Faculty Summer Seminar On Interfaith Relations: Day 1, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The Rev. Dr. Lawrence E. Frizzell facilitated the 2018 Faculty Summer Seminar on Interfaith Relations at Seton Hall University. In this presentation, Fr. Frizzell reviews a key document from the Second Vatican Council, "The Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions" (Nostra Aetate), with a focus on the Church's encounter with the Jewish people.


20th Anniversary Of The Vatican Document On The Shoah (Holocaust), Lawrence Frizzell Apr 2018

20th Anniversary Of The Vatican Document On The Shoah (Holocaust), Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

In light of the 20th anniversary of the Vatican document, “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah” (March 16, 1998), the Rev. Dr. Lawrence Frizzell analyzes this and other related Church publications and presentations and reflects on what lessons have been learned over the past two decades and what challenges still lie ahead.


Jewish-Christian Studies On The Graduate Level, Lawrence Frizzell Oct 2012

Jewish-Christian Studies On The Graduate Level, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This report reflects on work that prepares the next generation for their role as educators in Jewish-Christian studies and relations and was delivered at the Meeting of the Consultors of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and Representatives from Bishops Conferences Responsible for Dialogue with the Jews in Vatican City on October 30, 2012.


The Church's Bond With The Jewish People, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2012

The Church's Bond With The Jewish People, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This article examines the history and impact of the fourth paragraph, "The Church's Bond with the Jewish People," within the Second Vatican Council's Declaration Nostra Aetate, which was promulgated October 28, 1965.


The Religious Other As Neighbor, Lawrence Frizzell May 2009

The Religious Other As Neighbor, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Many stories are told about antagonism between Christians and Jews, especially in countries with a large Jewish minority. The history of persecution should be told along with the lessons learned for our time. A brief review of examples whose participants were neighbors, either in reality or in principle, may be instructive. This paper will move through the centuries in a rapid survey, recalling friendly contacts or benign exchanges between Christians and Jews.


Mary And The Jews: The Gospels And The Early Church, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2009

Mary And The Jews: The Gospels And The Early Church, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The intention of this essay is twofold; to extend the time period of my earlier essays on Mary and the biblical heritage and to sketch the developments in the early Church, in spite of their burdens of motifs relating to the Jewish people, so that we can understand our history with an insight into the Church's roots and prepare for a better future in Christian- Jewish relations.


The Teaching Of The Second Vatican Council On Jews And Judaism, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2007

The Teaching Of The Second Vatican Council On Jews And Judaism, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This article examines the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on Jews and Judaism.The copyright is held by Sacred Heart University Press. Learn more about Examining Nostra Aetate After 40 Years: Catholic-Jewish Relations in Our Time at http://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/shupress/christianjewishunderstanding.


Worship, The Bond Between Time/Space And Eternity, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2006

Worship, The Bond Between Time/Space And Eternity, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Dr. Kenneth Schmitz's review of philosophical insights into language and writing is necessarily focused on the world of Greece and Rome. It would be valuable to have scholars immersed in the Hebrew language and traditional Jewish culture to reflect upon the same issues. At a conference on the trivium and quadrivium in Medieval Europe, Dean Arthur Hyman of Yeshiva University was asked to comment. His response was brief: "This was not the Jewish approach."Recalling the genius and limitations of a language to convey insights into the meaning of life and its mysteries, we acknowledge the role of translation in conveying …


Jew And Christian In The New Testament, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2004

Jew And Christian In The New Testament, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

In general, anti-Jewish bias in the Christian community does not go back to the New Testament (NT) itself (since its authors were Jews) but arises shortly afterward through misreadings of ambiguous passages written by these Jews. What often passes for anti-Jewish sentiment in the NT is excerpted from a dispute within the Jewish community as to what it means to be a good Jew. When cited later by non-Jews, Paul's and John's passionate wording leant itself easily to anti-Jewish interpretation.The issues in Jewish-Christian relations from 30-100 CE are complex for several reasons. This article sketches certain aspects of these questions …


The Death Of Jesus And The Death Of The Temple, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2004

The Death Of Jesus And The Death Of The Temple, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Whether he knew it or not, Mel Gibson touched on theological traditions formed long after the lifetime of Jesus in his movie, The Passion of Christ. To have them shape a movie that purports to tell a story set during the lifetime of Jesus – even if only in his last twelve hours – adds a confusing kind of anachronism to Gibson’s effort to “tell it like it was.” It (the movie) is as it (the history) wasn’t.To understand the place of the Temple in the lifetime and the piety of Jesus of Nazareth, we have to look beyond later …


Interreligious Dialogue In Global Perspective, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil. Jan 2002

Interreligious Dialogue In Global Perspective, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The tensions between religions and political systems have been evident in intellectual and cultural contexts throughout human experience. In past ages, there has been a propensity for each culture or religion to assume that it embodied the best in every aspect of the human order. There is no longer any excuse for such narrowness spawned of ignorance to dominate the thinking of educated people. Yet mere tolerance of other approaches to the common challenges of humanity will not provide security for all, especially for minorities within a culture or for weaker societies in a given region striving to maintain their …


Jews And Judaism In The Medieval Latin Liturgy, Lawrence Frizzell, J. Henderson Jan 2001

Jews And Judaism In The Medieval Latin Liturgy, Lawrence Frizzell, J. Henderson

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The purpose of this study is to sketch the positive and negative dimensions in the Latin liturgy of the Church's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish people during the period prior to the sixteenth century. Seasons of the liturgical year and particular ceremonies are discussed in some detail to present the impact of the liturgy on the perception of Catholics regarding their Jewish neighbors.Copyright of The Liturgy of the Medieval Church is held by Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan University).


"The Jews" In The Fourth Gospel, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 2000

"The Jews" In The Fourth Gospel, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This article examines the work various scholars have endeavored to apply to themes and passages in John's Gospel so that its salutary intention is appreciated to the full.


Mary's Magnificat: Sources And Themes, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1999

Mary's Magnificat: Sources And Themes, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

In the 1961 meeting of this Society, the Basilian biblical scholar, James Terence Forestell, reflected upon the biblical background of the Magnificat. He declared that it is not merely a patchwork quilt of Old Testament texts. "The Magnificat is a new hymn with its own unity of inspiration, but the words do reflect a whole stream of O.T. piety, which is not to be isolated in a few texts." He studied the background possibilities in the Jewish Scriptures for every significant term in the hymn.I will stand with him against the assessment of the Jesuit Scripture scholar, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, …


Mary And The Biblical Heritage Jan 1995

Mary And The Biblical Heritage

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Throughout the ages, the Church and her teachers often acknowledged that the fourfold Gospel offers only a limited number of passages that feature the Mother of Jesus. Undaunted, the great doctors of the early Church and the theologians of the Middle Ages found abundant resources for their meditation concerning Mary in the Jewish Scriptures and literature related to the New Testament. The theological premise that God is the principal author of the entire Bible led them to find hints and images of the Messiah everywhere. Recognizing that the link of Jesus to the people of Israel is Mary, his Mother, …


The Bible And The Holy Land: Pastoral Letter From Jerusalem, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1994

The Bible And The Holy Land: Pastoral Letter From Jerusalem, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This paper addresses the specific question of leadership as it relates to the peace process between Israel and its neighbors from within context of the November 1993 pastoral letter of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah.


Paul The Pharisee, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1994

Paul The Pharisee, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This study reviews the statements by and about St. Paul concerning his origins, evidence of his attitude toward prayer, his interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and the thrust of his teaching concerning the moral order. The copyright is held by Peter Lang. Learn more about Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue at http://bit.ly/15yUs2K.


The Catholic Church And The Jewish People: Evaluating The Results Of The Second Vatican Council, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1993

The Catholic Church And The Jewish People: Evaluating The Results Of The Second Vatican Council, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This article outlines the teachings of Vatican II in relation to the Jewish People and their place in the Church's self-definition.


Temple And Community: Foundation For Johannine Spirituality, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1993

Temple And Community: Foundation For Johannine Spirituality, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This study examines the Jewish use of the ancient biblical traditions in the Gospel of John.The copyright is held by Peter Lang. Learn more about Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics, and Typologies at http://bit.ly/ZgII2c


Education By Example: A Motif In Joseph And Maccabee Literature Of The Second Temple Period, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1989

Education By Example: A Motif In Joseph And Maccabee Literature Of The Second Temple Period, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

In Jewish tradition the five books of Moses hold the place of honor in Israel's sacred writings as the Torah or "instruction" of God. Some people, even in ancient times, seemed to emphasize the legislative teachings or commandments, so the Greek translators chose the word "Nomos" or "Law" to render Torah. Indeed, laws provide the practical norms whereby people guide their lives and teach their offspring. However, in most cultures legislation has its complement in inspiring narratives. Heroes and heroines of times long past are presented as worthy of imitation. They exemplify the ideal that offers a synthesis about the …


Commitment In The Hebrew Bible: Moses, Elijah And Jeremiah, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1987

Commitment In The Hebrew Bible: Moses, Elijah And Jeremiah, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The biblical heritage has much to offer regarding the concept of religious commitment. The reflections in this article show how this religious commitment involves a response to God and a responsibility to the community in which the person lives.


Peacemaking In The New Testament Period, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1986

Peacemaking In The New Testament Period, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This essay sketches the priciples that the major movements (Sadducees, Pharisees and Essenes) among the Jewish people in the Holy Land developed for maintaining fidelity to God and love of neighbor.


God And His Temple: Reflections On Professor Samuel Terrien’S The Elusive Presence: Toward A New Biblical Theology, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1980

God And His Temple: Reflections On Professor Samuel Terrien’S The Elusive Presence: Toward A New Biblical Theology, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This small book consists of papers which were given at the third and final session of a consultation on "Theology of Catastrophe." The participants met under the auspices of the American Academy of Religion in New York City on November 15, 1979.Father Frizzell edited and contributed the article, "The Presence of God," to this booklet.


Religious Experience And Interpretation: A Christian Interpretation, Lawrence Frizzell Jan 1980

Religious Experience And Interpretation: A Christian Interpretation, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The interpretation of ancient texts focuses on issues which can be common to several religious traditions.' Within the Jewish and Christian expressions of theology over the centuries, the task of relating the contents of earlier documents to different cultures and philosophies of life has been tackled from many angles. In recent years the work of Claude Levi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur has suggested new approaches to fundamental hermeneutical questions.