Webinar: From 325 to 2025: The Council of Nicaea and Jewish-Christian Relations Today

Source: ICCJ

Anette AdelmannICCJ General Secretary

In conjunction with ICCJ's member organization "Christian Jewish Dialogue of Canada", the ICCJ Theology Committee is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 9, 6 pm UTC, to explore the ongoing influence and impact of the Council and Creed of Nicaea on Jewish-Christian Relations.

From 325 to 2025: The Council of Nicaea and Jewish-Christian Relations Today

Join six scholars — three Jewish and three Christian — for a conversation examining how the 1700-year legacy of the Council of Nicaea continues to shape Jewish-Christian relations in the 21st century.

The Nicene Creed stands as one of Christianity's most influential theological statements. But what has been its impact on Jewish-Christian relations, dialogue, and understanding? Can it be understood or received as anything other than a milestone of boundary-marking and exclusion on the long road leading to the parting of the ways between the church and synagogue? In this anniversary year, what opportunities exist for deeper theological engagement between our traditions?

This webinar explores these questions through multiple scholarly perspectives. Rather than rehashing historical grievances, this conversation seeks substantive theological engagement about the experience of divine presence, covenantal identity, and the interpretation of shared scriptural traditions. Both communities will explore how their respective developments have shaped — and been shaped by — this pivotal moment in Christian history.Text.

Speakers:

• Dr Pavol Bargár is an associate professor at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He serves on the executive board of the ICCJ. He is also a member of the steering team of the ICCJ Theology Committee.
• Rabbi Dr Michael Hilton is an Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, Scholar in Residence, Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, and tutor in Ancient Greek, Leo Baeck College Lehrhaus. His current research interest is in the impact of Islam on Judaism.
• Rev Patrick Morrow is a priest in the Church of England in both parish ministry and mental health chaplaincy. He has written on Chalcedonian orthodoxy in relationship to Jewish-Christian dialogue, in Deep Calls to Deep: Transforming Conversations between Jews and Christians, ed. Tony Bayfield (SCM, 2017).
• Rev Dr Geoffrey Ready is the director of Orthodox Christian Studies at Trinity College within the University of Toronto, Canada, where he teaches liturgical theology, pastoral studies, and both Old and New Testament. He chairs Orthodox Christians in Dialogue with Jews, a working group addressing anti-Judaism in Orthodox preaching, teaching, and worship.
• Dr Norman C. Tobias is a Canadian jurist and historian and author of the book Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). He is a member of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops — Canadian Rabbinic Caucus Bilateral Theological Dialogue.
• Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers is part of the clergy team at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue. She has been active in Jewish Christian Dialogue since her teens, and was chair of the ICCJ Youth Council 2002-2004. Interfaith dialogue has remained a core passion of her career and she currently teaches World Religions and Encounter to trainee Rabbis at Leo Baeck College.

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