After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust.(Book Review)

Shofar, June, 2005 by Edelheit, Joseph A.

After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust, by Richard Harries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 239 pp. $22.00.

Richard Harries provides those engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue with a valuable example of the complex ambiguities of that dialogue in After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Harries has been the Bishop of Oxford for more than 25 years and a leader of the Anglican Church's participation in Jewish-Christian dialogue including a small but intense gathering of Jewish and Christian clergy who have studied together for several years. Thus, the most significant value of Harries' text will be for those who are themselves involved in similar dialogues and study groups and are looking...

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