Canon C. E. Raven, Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, today urged the calling of a conference between Christians and Jews of all regions to set out their fundamental religious convictions, not as much in theological terms as in terms of their ethical and social significance.
The Canon made his proposal at a meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews, which he suggested might call the parley. He thought the Council might also sponsor a commission to explore knowledge of Judaism during the first century as part of a program of exploration and interpretation of the deeper and abiding elements of the human community.
Such a study, he felt, might make an essential contribution to the understanding and attainment not only of tolerance but of the family life of mankind which both religions inherited. Dr. Raven’s address was the fifth Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture of the Council.
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