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Protestants, a Catholic, and a Jew,‖ 37 ―George L. Fox[,] Clark V. Poling[,] John P. Washington, and Alexander D. Goode,‖ 38 respectively, helped save seamen evacuating the sinking ship by giving the seamen ―their own gloves and life belts.‖ 39 The chaplains then proceeded to pray alongside one another ―in three languages—English, Latin, and Hebrew‖ 40 as the ship sunk into the water. This noble act was recorded in heroic terms on a 1948 U.S. postage stamp that read: ―interfaith in action.‖ 41 This act of ―worshipping together [by]…the four chaplains…exemplified the creation of a ‗Judeo-Christian tradition‘ that would come to express American ideals guiding the country‘s wartime mission.‖ 42 Indeed, the chaplains‘ deaths came to signify ―faith confronting adversity, the triumph of fellowship over religious strife, the spirit of self-sacrifice by officers for their men, the power of love over death.‖ 43 After news of the Nazi death camps came to light, ―a phrase like ‗our Christian civilization‘ seemed ominously exclusive,‖ 44 impelling an expansion of the spiritual underpinnings of American society. By 1951, institutions devoted to achieving Christian unity, relating to deed and creed, were established. In the 1950‘s, a direct Catholic-Jewish dialogue, to which ―the largest contributions were made by Jewish human-relations agencies,‖ 45 began. Come ―1952[,] good Americans were supposed to be, in some sense, committed Judeo-Christians. It was a recent addition to 37 Sarna 267 38 Moore 120 39 Sarna 267 40 Moore 37 41 Sarna 267 42 Moore 121 43 Moore 121-122 44 Silk 69 45 Feldman & Berenbaum 7
the national creed.‘‖ 46 According to this Judeo-Christian tradition, ―All Americans…believed in the Fatherhood of G[-]d, the Brotherhood of Man, the individual dignity of each human being, and ‗positive ethical standards of right and wrong‘ existing apart from ‗the will of any man.‘‖ 47 In the 1960‘s, the Roman Catholic Church began to exhibit greater openness to engaging with other Christian bodies, choosing to convene, for example, the Second Vatican Council. 46 Silk 65 47 Moore 121 8
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Overview: Ecume
Page 5 and 6: any one denomination to pursue effe
Page 7 and 8: traditions (‗culture groups‘):
Page 9: Leaders, Protestant, Catholic, and
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Page 15 and 16: of individuals, such as Roncalli an
Page 17 and 18: authoritarian regimes.‖ 82 In add
Page 19 and 20: Rabbi Moses Feinstein: Biographical
Page 21 and 22: was a Kohen.‖ 102 Through employi
Page 23 and 24: Rabbi Moses Feinstein on Interfaith
Page 25 and 26: on Christian-Jewish dialogue, feari
Page 27 and 28: Joseph B. Soloveitchik, whose own p
Page 29 and 30: descended from the Beis Halevi (the
Page 31 and 32: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Int
Page 33 and 34: certain non-religious matters, shar
Page 35 and 36: I and Adam II is also found in Solo
Page 37 and 38: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on Int
Page 39 and 40: not only given us rights, it has al
Page 41 and 42: fratricide,‖ 201 asserting that,
Page 43 and 44: also is not even an aspiration wort
Page 45 and 46: theologically than, the tradition o
Page 47 and 48: for Jews given that this religious
Page 49 and 50: Bibliography Berenbaum, Michael, an
Page 51: Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism

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