Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Dr Edward Kessler MBE to be awarded 2024 “Seelisberg Prize” as part of the opening event of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) international conference in Salzburg (23 June).

The Seelisburg Prize is named in memory of the ground-breaking gathering that occurred in the small Swiss village of Seelisberg from 30 July to 5 August 1947 to address perennial Christian teachings of contempt for Jews and Judaism. It issued the very influential “A Call to the Churches: The Ten Points of Seelisberg” which is widely recognised as inaugurating the transformation in relations between Jews and Christians that has unfolded over the past seventy years.

The Seelisburg Prize is awarded annually (since 2022) by the International Council of Christians and Jews (which originated out of the Seelisberg conference) and the Center for Intercultural Theology and Religions at the University of Salzburg.

It honours individuals who have played major roles through their scholarship and teaching in advancing the rapprochement between Jews and Christians.

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