God's face is turned towards humankind and the whole of creation. From God's face blessings pour over all those who are in his covenant. People of Jewish and Christian faith can surely unite in the prayer that humanity will turn to its creator and receive the blessings of God. Nothing could better make us draw closer to each other than worship of the one God who renews everything.
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(1) A Brockway et alit, ed., Geneva 1988.
(2) 2 Brockway, 183.
(3) Minutes of the House of Bishops 10th May 1995.
(4) Our proposition builds partly on the Seelisberg points (1947), which have
played an important role for later Church documents on this issue, partly on
the World Council of Churches study document Ecumenical Considerations on Jewish-Christian
Dialogue, 1983. We have also taken into consideration those Church documents
that have been collected by Alan Brockway et alii. In Swedish, there are a number
of texts on the issue, such as Kyrkan och det judiska folket ("The Church
and the Jewish People"), published in 1991 by the Church of Sweden Mission
and the working party on dialogue between religions of the then Creedal Committee.
(5) "Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you
and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom" (Matt 21:43)",
"For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for
everyone who believes" (Rom 10:4).
(6) J. Sacks, The interfaith imperative. Sacks actually speaks of several roads
–one for each people – not just two; this is actually a fourth model.
(7) Judisk tidskrift, 6 (1933), p. 299.