Conquest or Leaven - Reflections of a Catholic Priest in Palestine/Israel

by David M Neuhaus SJ

A divided, traumatised and even dehumanised people such as those found in the Holy Land - Palestine and Israel - is in life-giving need of transformation.  In this book, Fr David Neuhaus SJ argues that the Christians of the Holy Land may play a key part in fostering such transformation - not as a neutral bridge, for Christian Palestinians are just as oppressed as their Muslim neighbours, but as a leaven in society. 

Few are as well-placed to analyze the past, present and future of Palestine/Israel as Fr Neuhaus, the son of refugees from Nazism, raised in a Jewish family and later ordained as a Jesuit Catholic Priest, who grew up under South African apartheid and has lived as an Israeli citizen in Jerusalem for almost fifty years. 

Jesuit Institute 2025

179 pages