Research Catalog

Title

Jews and Christians : people of God / edited by Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Braaten, Carl E., 1929-
• Jenson, Robert W.

Description

ix, 198 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"While Christians and Jews have always been aware of their religious connections - historical community, overlapping theology, shared scriptures - that awareness has traditionally been infected by centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility. As this important volume shows, however, theologians and scholars of Judaism and Christianity alike are now radically rethinking the relation between their two covenant communities." "Jews and Christians presents the best of this work, introducing readers to a coherent Jewish theology of Christianity and a Christian theology of Judaism. Here are leading Christian and Jewish thinkers who have engaged in extensive conversation, who take each other's work seriously, and who avoid the pitfall common to Jewish-Christian dialogue - watering down distinctive beliefs to accommodate both partners. Indeed, these pages show how the new theological exchange goes to the roots of that "olive tree" of which both Judaism and Christianity are branches, and the book as a whole represents post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian dialogue at the highest theological level."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Judaism > Christianity > 1945- > Congresses
• Christianity and other religions > Judaism > 1945- > Congresses
• Judaism (Christian theology) > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Most chapters of this book originated as addresses presented at a conference on 'Jews and Christians: People of God,' held at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 10-12, 2001"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Toward a Christian theology of Judaism / Robert W. Jenson -- Hallowed be thy name! ; the tetragrammaton and the name of the trinity / R. Kendall Soulen -- Our father Abraham : a point of theological convergence and divergence for Christians and Jews / Marvin R. Wilson -- Salvation is from the Jews / Richard John Neuhaus -- The church as Israel : ecclesiology and ecumenism / George Lindbeck -- From supersessionism to parallelism in Jewish-Christian dialogue / David Novak -- Recovering the God of history : scriptural life after death in Judaism and Christianity / Peter Ochs -- Did God forgive Adam? : an exercise in comparative Midrash / Jon D. Levenson -- Birds never sing in this forest / Reidar Dittmann -- Dabru emet : a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity -- A symposium on Dabru emet / Wolfhart Pannenberg, David Bentley Hart, David B. Burrell, Barry Cytron.

ISBN

0802805078

LCCN

^^2003049060

OCLC

• 52121470
• SCSB-10756957

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library