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Overview
... communion with Jesus as Jewish Messiah and invisibly with the Messianic community of Israel , insofar as the Messiah displays an immanent activity inside it . Thus the Mission the two - fold Mission - ends in communion . What about ...Synopsis
Without compromising the Christian position, Gillet sets out to show how much Christians have to learn from Jews before they can hope to communicate their own faith that Jesus is the Christ. After a historical analysis of the intellectual relations between Christianity and Judaism, the author eruditely draws out the common elements of the two traditions, challenging and correcting misconceptions about Rabbinism and Jewish life and teaching generally, misconceptions which overlook the two millennia of Jewish thought between the Old Testament and modern times. He shows how close is this connection, and how deeply spiritual is much of Jewish theology. There is, he claims, nothing in Jewish belief that a Jew become Christian ought to reject, while Christianity is the completion and fulfilment of Judaism.Book Details
Published
February 1, 2003
Publisher
James Clarke & Co.
Pages
264
ISBN
9780227172254