First Things RSS Feed - Eugene J. Fisher https://www.firstthings.com/author/eugene-j-fisher en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:04 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/eugene-j-fisher 60 The Churches and Israel https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/02/004-the-churches-and-israel https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/02/004-the-churches-and-israel Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0500 Christian Attitudes Towards the State of Israel
By Paul Charles Merkley
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 266 pages, $44.95

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]]> The Vatican and the State of Israel https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-vatican-and-the-state-of-israel https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/the-vatican-and-the-state-of-israel Mon, 01 Apr 1991 00:00:00 -0500 In a recently published book, Sergio I. Minerbi, formerly of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks of the Catholic Church as “the chief opponent” of the Zionist movement past and present, and he identifies “the real reasons underlying” this “hostility” as “immutable theological positions” (The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land 1895-1925, Oxford). Minerbi offers no sustained argument for this viewpoint—indeed, he makes no theological analysis of Catholic doctrine—but simply presumes it as self-evident.

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