Concluded
Events
Uneasy Allies? Evangelical-Jewish Relations Today
November 30-December 1, 2005
The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City
Sponsors
The Louis Finkelstein Institute, The Jewish Theological Seminary
The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University
The Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University
This conference explored the state of relations between Protestant Evangelicals, the largest segment of American Protestantism, and the Jewish community. Issues addressed included: what Jews and Evangelicls think about each other, the level and quality of contacts between the organized Jewish community and Evangelical groups, nature of support for Israel, attitudes toward mission and conversion, and approaches toward the role of religion in public and political life.
Papers Presented
John Green, Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, University of Akron
What Do Evangelicals Think About Jews?
Barry Kosmin, Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College
Evangelical Protestants and Jews: A View from the Polls
Byron Johnson, Professor of Scociology; Director, Center for Religious Inquiry Across the Disciplines, Baylor University
What Makes Evangelical and Jewish Relations Uneasy?
Lawrence Grossman, Co-editor, American Jewish Year Book; Associate Director of Research, American Jewish Committee
The Organized Jewish Community and Evangelical America: A Brief History
George Mamo, Executive Vice President, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
"Luckier Than Moses": The Future of the Jewish-Evangelical Alliance
David Neff, Editor, Christianity Today
Notes for a Jewish-Evangelical Conversation
Gerald R. McDermott, Professor of Religion, Roanoke College
Evangelicals and Israel
Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, Judaic Scholar, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Jews and Evangelicals--Between Prophecy and Mitzvot
Yaakov Ariel, Professor of Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Is America Christian? Religion in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Chair of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
Evangelical Ironies: Theology, Politics, and Israel
Mark Silk, Professor of Religion; Director, The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College
Last Things: The Future of Jews and Evangelicals in American Public Life
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