Christianity in Jewish terms / editors, Tikva Frymer-Kensky ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism (Christian theology).

Christianity in rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explains to American Jews the core religious beliefs of Christianity and assesses the threats and promises of the Jewish?Christian encounter from a Jewish perspective.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: What to Seek and What to Avoid in Jewish-Christian Dialogue; 2 Christian-Jewish Interactions over the Ages; 3 The Shoah and the Legacy of Anti-Semitism; Judaism, Christianity, and Partnership After the Twentieth Century; Christian Theology After teh Shoah; 4 God; The God of Jews and Christians; A Jewish View of the Christian God: Some Cautionary and Hopeful Remarks; God as Trinitarian: A Christian Response to Peter Ochs; 5 Scripture

Searching the Scriptures: Jews, Christians, and the Book; The Writings and Reception of Philo of Alexandria; Postmodern Hermeneutics and Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Case Study; 6 Commandment; Mitsvah; Another Jewish View of Ethics, Christian and Jewish; Christian Ethics in Jewish Terms: A Response to David Novak; 7 Israel; Judaism and Christianity: Covenants of Redemption; Israel, Judaism, and Christianity; Israel and the Church: A Christian Response to Irving Greenberg's Conventional Pluralism; 8 Worship; Jewish and Christian Liturgy; Liturgy and Sensory Experience

Christian Worship: An Affair of Things as well as Words; 9 Suffering; On the Suffering of God's Chosen: Christian Views in Jewish Terms; Suspicions of Suffering; The Meaning and Value of Suffering: A Christian Response to Leora Batnitzky; 10 Embodiment; Judaism and Incarnation: The Imaginal Body of God; The Christian Doctrine of the Incarnation; Embodiment and Incarnation: A Response to Elliot Wolfson; 11 Redemption; How Ought a Jew View Christian Beliefs About Redemption?; Redemption: What I Have Learned from Christians; A Christian View of Redemption; 12 Sin and Repentance

""Turn Us to You and We Shall Return"": Original Sin, Atonement, and Redemption in Jewish Terms; Exile and Return in a World of Injustice: A Response to Steven Kepnes; The Lamb of God and the Sin of the World; 13 Image of God; The Image: Religious Anthropology in Judaism and Christianity; Tselem: Toward an Anthropopathic Theology of Image; The Image of God in Christian Faith: Vocation, Dignity, and Redemption; Epilogue: Concluding Visions; What of the Future? A Christian Response; What of the Future? A Jewish Response; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7867-2289-4

OCLC:

784885623