A Selected Bibliography
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry. Faith and Order Paper n. 111. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1990. I. Ecumenism (Relations with other Christians)
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry: Report 1982-1990. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1990.
Borelli, John and John Erickson. The Quest for Unity: Orthodox and Catholic in Dialogue. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press/Washington, DC, US Catholic Conference, 1995. Contains all the documents produced by international and North American Catholic-Orthodox dialogues up to 1995. [Publication n. 113-2]
Brown, Raymond, Karl P. Donfried, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and John Reumann, eds. Mary in the New Testament. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press/New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1978. Sponsored by the United States Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue.
Brown, Raymond, Karl P. Donfried and John Reumann, eds. Peter in the New Testament. New York, NY: Paulist Press/Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1973. Sponsored by the United States Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue.
Burgess, Joseph, and Jeffrey Gros, eds. Growing Consensus. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995. (US Dialogues)
Burgess, Joseph, ed. The One Mediator, Mary and the Saints. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1992.
"The Catholic Church in Ecumenical Dialogue 2002"
Empie, Paul C., T. Austin Murphy, and Joseph A. Burgess, eds. Teaching Authority and Infallibility in the Church. Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue VI. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1980.
Fahey, Michael, SJ. Ecumenism: A Bibliographical Overview. Westport, CT, 1992.
Gassmann, Gunther, ed. Documentary History of Faith and Order: 1963-1993. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1993.
Gift of Authority. An Agreed Statement by the Second Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (May 12, 1999)
Gros, Jeffrey and Joseph Burgess, eds. Building Unity. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989. Documents produced by US dialogues with Catholic participation.
Gros, Jeffrey, E. Rozanne Elder, and Ellen K. Wondra, eds. Common Witness to the Gospel: Documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations, 1983-1995. Washington, DC: US Catholic Conference, 1997. [Publication n. 5-060]
Gros, Jeffrey. "Reception and Roman Catholicism for the 1990's," One in Christ, 31:4, 1995, 295-328.
A Guide for Catholics Considering Marriage with an Orthodox Christian. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998.
A Guide on Catholic-Orthodox Marriages for Catholic Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998.
Hill, Christopher, and Edward Yarnold, eds. Anglicans and Roman Catholics: The Search for Unity, The ARCIC Documents and their Reception. London: SPCK/CTS, 1994.
Hotchkin, John. "The Ecumenical Movement's Third Stage," Origins 25/21 (November 9, 1995) pp. 353 -361.
John Paul II. Addresses and Homilies on Ecumenism, 1978-1980. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1981. [Publication n. 720-0]
John Paul II. Ut Unum Sint. Vatican City, 1995. Encyclical On the Commitment to Ecumenism.
Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification: The Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. See also Cardinal Edward Cassidy's Press Conference Statement of June 25, 1998 in Origins 28/8 (July 16, 1998) pp. 128-130, and the Official Catholic Response to the draft of the Joint Declaration in the same issue of Origins, pp. 130-132. On the web: The Joint Declaration
Official Common Statement by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church
Annex to the Official Common Statement
Journeying Together in Christ: The Report of the Polish National Catholic-Roman Catholic Dialogue (1984-1989). Edited by Stanislaus J. Brzana and Anthony M. Rysz. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1990.
Kilmartin, Edward J. Toward Reunion: The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1979.
Kinnamon, Michael, and Biran Cope eds. The Ecumenical Movement: An Anthology of Basic Texts and Voices. Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1997. Selected texts on the full range of ecumenical issues.
Kochakian, Garabed, John Meno, and Ronald Roberson, eds. Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Interchurch Marriages and Other Pastoral Relationships, Washington, United States Catholic Conference, 1995. Published jointly by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Standing Committee of Oriental Orthodox Churches in America. [Publication n. 097-4]
Lehmann, Karl, and Wolfhart Pannenberg, eds. The Condemnations of the Reformation Era, Do they Still Divide? Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1990.
Lehmann, Karl, Michael Root, and William Rusch, eds. Justification by Faith: Do the Sixteenth-Century Condemnations Still Apply? New York, NY: Continuum, 1997.
Lossky, Nicholas, et al., eds. Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1991.
Lutheran-Roman Catholic Coordinating Committee. The Lutheran-Catholic Quest for Visible Unity: Harvesting Thirty Years of Dialogue. Chicago, IL: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America/ Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement on the Implementation of the Apostolic Letter on Mixed Marriages. October 1, 1970. Boston: St. Paul Books & Media.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Toward Peace in the Middle East: Perspectives, Principles and Hopes. November 9, 1989. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1989.
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism. Vatican City, 1993.
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Ecumenical Dimension in the Formation of Pastoral Workers. Vatican City, 1998.
Riggs, Ann, Eamon McManus, Jeffrey Gros. Introduction to Ecumenism. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1998.
Roberson, Ronald. "The Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Today," Origins, January 14, 1999, 28:30, 526-530.
Roberson, Ronald. The Eastern Christian Churches, 6th edition, Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute, 1998.
Roman Catholic-Presbyterian/Reformed Consultation. Laity in the Church and the World: Resources for Ecumenical Dialogue. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998. [Publication n. 5-247]
Rusch, William G. and Jeffrey Gros. Deepening Communion. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998. Statements at the international level with Catholic participation. [Publication n. 5-164]
Stormon, E. J., SJ. Towards the Healing of Schism: Public Statements and Correspondence between the Holy See and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, 1958-1984. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1987.
United Methodist-Roman Catholic Dialogue, United States of America. Methodist-Catholic Dialogues: Thirty Years of Mission and Witness. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 2001. (Also available in .pdf format)
Vischer, Lukas, ed. A Documentary History of the Faith & Order Movement: 1927-1963. St Louis, MO: The Bethany Press, 1963.
Vischer, Lukas and Harding Meyer eds. Growth in Agreement Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984.
Visher, Lukas, and Andreas Karrer, ed., Reformed and Roman Catholic in Dialogue, Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1988.
Witmer, Joseph W. and J. Robert Wright, eds. Called to Full Unity: Documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations 1966-1983. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1986. [Publication No. 937-8]
Wright, Robert, and Joseph Witmer, eds., Called to Full Unity: Documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations, 1966-1983. Cincinnati, OH: Forward Movement Publications, 1985. [Publication No. 937-8]
Bemporad, Jack, and Shevack, Michael, Our Age: The Historic New Era of Christian-Jewish Understanding (New City Press, 1996). Concise, readable summary and analysis of Catholic statements and documents by two rabbis beginning with the Second Vatican Council. Foreword by John Cardinal O'Connor. II. Relations with the Jews
Bernardin, Joseph, A Blessing to Each Other: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1996). Addresses and reflections of the late Cardinal on the dialogue.
Catholic Truth Society, Catholic-Jewish Relations: Documents from the Holy See (Washington: USCC Publications, 1999). Contains the text of Nostra Aetate and the three implementing documents of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (1974, 1985, 1998), in effect "the entire corpus of universal Roman Catholic teaching on Jews and Judaism since the close of the apostolic period," as Eugene Fisher states in his introduction. Bibliography.
Cernera, Anthony J., editor, Toward Greater Understanding: Essays in Honor of John Cardinal O'Connor (Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University, 1995). Includes essays by Cardinals Bernardin, Cassidy, Keeler, and Law; by Rabbis Jack Bemporad, David Novak, Mordecai Waxman, and Walter Wurtzburger; and by Elie Wiesel.
Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations ofthe Passion, Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Washington, DC 1988.Croner, Helga, editor, Stepping Stones to Further Jewish Christian Relations (Stimulus Books, 1977); More Stepping Stones (New York: Paulist Press, 1985). These two volumes contain the statements of Protestant and Catholic Church bodies on Christian-Jewish relations.
Efroymson, David, Fisher, Eugene J., and Klenicki, Leon, editors, Within Context: Essays On Jews and Judaism in the New Testament (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993). Roman Catholic scholars provide background on the New Testament with sensitivity to its Jewish milieu.
Fisher, Eugene J., Faith Without Prejudice (Second edition. New York: Crossroad, 1993). A general introduction to the issues, with activities for parishes and schools and a selection of key Catholic documents.
—, editor, Interwoven Destinies (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) and Visions of the Other (New York: Paulist Press, 1994). Six Christian and six Jewish scholars are paired in looking at the history and contemporary possibilities of two millennia of Jewish-Christian interrelations.
— and Klenicki, Leon, In Our Time: The Flowering of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Paulist/Stimulus, 1990). Key documents and commentary of the dialogue. Fifty-page annotated bibliography-essay on the literature in the field.
— and Klenicki, Leon, From Desolation to Hope: An Interreligious Holocaust Memorial Service (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1990).
— and Klenicki, Leon, editors, Spiritual Pilgrimage: Pope John Paul II, Texts on Jews and Judaism 1979 - 1995 (New York: Crossroad, 1995). The pope's statements, with introduction and thematic commentary by the editors.
— and Rudin, James, editors, Twenty Years of Jewish-Catholic Relations (Paulist, 1986). Essays by leading figures in the American dialogue since Vatican II on the Council, liturgy, Israel, education, and the Shoah.
Flannery, Edward J., The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism (Paulist, 1985). An historical survey of Christian Antisemitism by a Catholic author. Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 1983). Study of Patristic literature.
Hertzberg, Arthur The French Enlightenment and the Jews (New York: Columbia University).
New classic text revealing that in some ways the "enlightened" thinkers held darker and more racist views of Jews and Judaism than their medieval or Reformation predecessors.
International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee. Fifteen Years of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, 1970-1985 (Rome: Libreria Editrice Lateranense and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1988).
Jacobs, Steven J. editor, The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway, 1996). 22 scholars reflect on the Shoah and its implications for Jewish and Christian theology.
Littell, Marcia and Gutman, Sharon, editors, Liturgies on the Holocaust: An Interfaith Anthology (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996).
Oberman, Heiko, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Agen of Renaissance and Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984). Erasmus, Reuchlin, Pfefferkorn, Calvin, Luther and others.
Pawlikowski, John, and Wilde, James, When Catholics Speak About Jews (Chicago: Liturgy Training Program, 1987). Identifies difficulties in the lectionary and offers practical advice on how preachers can proclaim the gospel free of a negative portrait of Jews and Judaism.
Saperstein, Marc, Moments of Crisis in Jewish-Christian Relations (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989). Concise survey of the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and during the Holocaust.
Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, Catholics Remember the Holocaust (USCC Publication no. 5-290, 1998). Statements of European and U.S. Bishops' conferences, and of the Holy See, 1994-1998.
Catholic Teaching on the Shoah: Implementing the Holy See's We Remember.
"SIDIC" is a journal published three times a year by the Sisters of Sion in Rome. It specializes in materials and articles on Jewish-Christian relations. It is available through the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 3211 Fourth St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017.
Spiro, J. and Hirsch, H., editors, Persistent Prejudice (George Mason University Press, 1988). Essays on the history of antisemitism.
Synan, Edward A., The Popes and the Jews in the Middle Ages (New York: Macmillan, 1965). Relevant Church texts and their historical contexts.
The Theology of the Churches and the Jewish People: Statements of the World Council of Churches and Its Member Churches. (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1988), with commentaries by Alan Brockway, Paul van Buren Rolf Rentdorff, and Simon Schoon.
Wilken, Robert L., John Chrysostom and The Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century (Berkeley, 1983).
Willebrands, Cardinal Johannes. Church and Jewish People: New considerations (New York: Paulist Press, 1992). Collects the texts and addresses of the head of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews from 1974 to 1990.
Wolf, Alfred and Vadakin, Royale, editors, A Journey of Discovery: A Resource Manual for Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Valencia, CA: Tabor Publications, 1989). Handy, loose-leaf format includes joint statements and resources developed by the Los Angeles Respect Life, Priest/Rabbi, and Women's Dialogue groups over the course of two decades. A valuable resource
Arinze, Cardinal Francis. Christian-Muslim Relations in the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: Center For Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, 1998.
III. Interreligious Dialogue
Arinze, Cardinal Francis. Meeting other Believers. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 1998.
Arinze, Cardinal Francis. "Catholic Universities/Interreligious Dialogue." Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 27, 35 (February 19, 1998): 592-96.
Borelli, John. "The Catholic Church and Interreligious Dialogue," in Vatican II. The Continuing Agenda, pp. 89-111. Edited by Anthony J. Cernera. Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University Press, 1997.
Borelli, John. "Children of Abraham: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations." Mid-Stream 34, 2 (April 1995): 147-56.
Borelli, John. "The Goal and Fruit of Catholic-Muslim Dialogue." The Living Light, Department of Education, United States Catholic Conference, 32, 2 (Winter 1995): 51-60.
Borelli, John. "The Virgin Mary in the Breadth and Scope of Interreligious Dialogue," Marian Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue. Marian Studies, 47 (1996): 29-49.
Borrmans, Maurice. Guidelines for Dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Translated by R. Marston Speight. New York, Paulist Press, 1990.
Buddhist-Christian Studies. Nos. 1-18, 1981-1998. Current issue: 1998.
Burrows, William R., ed. Redemption and Dialogue. Reading Redemptoris Missio and Dialogue and Proclamation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
Confessing Christian Faith in a Pluralistic Society. Collegeville, MN: Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 1995.
Dupuis, Jacques, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997.
Fitzgerald, Michael. "The Spirituality of Interreligious Dialogue." Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 28, 36 (February 25, 1999): 631-33.
Gerry, Joseph J., O.S. B. "The Commitment of the Catholic Church to Interreligious Relations."The Living Light, Department of Education, United States Catholic Conference, 32, 2 (Winter 1995): 6-12.
Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin. Nos. 1-12, 1988-99. Current issue: 1999.
Interreligious Council of San Diego, Bridging Our Faiths. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Keeler, Cardinal William. "How Mary Holds Muslims and Christians in Conversation." Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 25, 36 (February 29, 1996): 610-12.
Mitchell, Donald W. and James Wiseman, O.S.B., eds. The Gethsemani Encounter: A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Catholic Monastics. New York: Continuum, 1997.
Muslim-Christian Research Group. The Challenge of the Scriptures. The Bible and the Qur' n. Translated by Stuart E. Brown. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops. 1992: Time for Remembering, Reconciling and Recommitting Ourselves as a People. Pastoral Reflections on the Fifth Centenary and Native American Peoples. Published in Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 21, 31(January 9, 1992): 493, 495-99.
Pelotte, Donald. "The Gospel and the Fate of Indigenous Peoples." Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 27, 27 (December 18, 1997): 445, 447-449.
Pelotte, Donald. "Healing Painful Memories; Re-establishing Hope." Origins. CNS Documentary Service, 28, 36: 44-48.
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Interreligious Dialogue: the Official Teaching of the Catholic Church (1963-1995). Edited by Francesco Gioia. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 1997.
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Pro Dialogo. [No. 1 (1966) - No. 69 (1988), Bulletin, Secretariat for Non Christians; No. 70 (1989) - No. 84 (1993), Bulletin, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; No. 85 (1994) - Current Issue No. 100, Pro Dialogo, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.] 00120 Vatican City, Europe.
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Recognize the Spiritual Bonds Which Unite Us. 16 Years of Christian Muslim Dialogue. Vatican City: 1994.
Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. Encounter: Documents for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 1974-1998, Nos. 1-250. 1999, Nos. 251ff.
Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. Islamochristiana, Nos. 1-24, 1975-1998.
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