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This book contains Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 collection of lectures, "Christianity And Progress". In these lectures, Fosdick guides the reader from the past to the present through the ideas, doctrines, and creeds of Judaism and Christianity, exploring the progressive tendencies of revelation and man's concepts of God. A fascinating and seminal collection of lectures, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the development...
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In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.
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A theologian explores the holidays and rituals of his wife's Jewish faith in an "accessible and engaging" memoir told "with humor and a scholar's insight" (Los Angeles Times).
As a member of an interfaith household, eminent Christian theologian, and religion scholar, National Book Award finalist Harvey Cox has had ample opportunity to reflect upon the essence of Judaism and its complex relationship to Christianity.
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As a member of an interfaith household, eminent Christian theologian, and religion scholar, National Book Award finalist Harvey Cox has had ample opportunity to reflect upon the essence of Judaism and its complex relationship to Christianity.
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An in-depth look at the Christian scriptures, from a Jewish perspective.
Many Jewish people know the New Testament only through snippets of verse heard at a Christian wedding or funeral, or through a chapter read in literature class. Many are completely unfamiliar with the meaning or messages of Christian scripture and therefore hold strange or startling judgments about it. A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament introduces the text to Jewish...
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"This volume seeks to diminish conflict between Jews and Christians as it opens interfaith diologue and eases tensions from mistakes in the past. It is designed for Christian clergy and laypeople to expand their knowledge about the Jewish aspects and roots of their faith. The book explores misconceptions, unintentional anti-Semitism in liturgy or interpretation,a nd beautiful comparisons and helps readers understand the difference between the historical...
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"F.E. Peters, a scholar in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers - at a time when the understanding of these three religious traditions has taken on a new and critical urgency." "Peters traces the three faiths from the sixth century B.C. when the Jews returned to...
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Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics
The History of God
In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age and wrestles with the central questions of religion and belief.
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Though these three belief systems intertwine throughout history, they are in fact extremely different in both basic structure and ultimately, in deity. Many people have claimed over the years that the God of Judeo-Christianity is in fact the same god of Islam. However, due to key points of differences in their respective religious texts, as well as the nature of God versus Allah in the everyday life of those who practice these religions, it becomes...
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Ce livre ouvrira la porte à de nouvelles découvertes passionnantes
dont vous n'avez jamais entendu parler et que vous ne connaissez pas sur le mode de vie juif.
Pour tous ceux qui ont toujours rêvé et souhaité visiter la terre d'Israël, pour tous ceux qui aiment le peuple juif et qui ont désiré ardemment en savoir plus sur leur religion et leur mode de vie, pour chaque chrétien qui aime Jésus et qui souhaite en savoir plus sur ses racines...
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When Rome flattened Judea in the late first and early second centuries of the Common Era, Rabbinic Judaism regrouped and reorganized at the Academy in Yavne, Greek-speaking, gentile proto-orthodox Christianity headquartered in Antioch, Syria, and the Nazareans, the original, Jewish and "God-fearer," Hebraically minded "Followers of the Way," escaped to Pella.
Rejected by both the rabbis and the bishops, the Nazareans have often had to go underground,...
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In time for Pope Francis's new initiatives. We now have the potential to end two thousand years of hostility-will we succeed? New in paperback!
With keen wisdom and a masterful understanding of history, Rabbi James Rudin, an acclaimed authority in the field of Jewish-Christian relations, provides the context necessary for Christians and Jews to recognize the critical challenges posed by the past-and the future-of their two religions.
Spanning twenty...
12) Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure: Their Origins and Relevance in the Twentieth-Century
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At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong virginity while the Babylonian Talmud strongly embraced positive views on bodily pleasures and female sexuality.
The books most distinguishing feature is...
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"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption...
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There were once many gods that governed the earth. Most of them have been relegated to nothing more than ancient mythology. Only one has survived to modern times. We know him today simply as God. However, when you step away from the taught canon and look at the ancient world with a more open mind, you start to see the similarities between the gods. The so-called pagan deities that interacted with humans also included God among them. He was as real...
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An affordable edition of Philo! A contemporary of Jesus and Paul, Philo wrote extensively on the Hebrew Scriptures and other Jewish topics, but few have read his work because all available sets were pricey. This edition features modern type, passages keyed to the Loeb referencing system, and several newly translated sections not found in other editions.
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When Baker yearns for something more, she discovers that the Christian message answers the deep yearning within each of us to resolve human suffering. Baker's conversion is not a blinding-light epiphany, but a process spanning years of agonizing conflict, echoing twenty centuries of misunderstanding between Christians and Jews.
Living in the same city as her chagrined parents, she is forced to process difficulties related to family dynamics, group...
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During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage. Is the God of ISIS the same as the God of Israel? Do Sunni Muslims and Protestant Christians pray to the same Creator and Sustainer of the universe?
In this Counterpoints volume, edited by Ronnie P. Campbell, Jr., and Christopher Gnanakan, five leading scholars present the main religious perspectives...
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Our late modern era is marked by the rapidity of change; waxing pluralism; focus on the future, not the past; the elevation of personal choice over communal obligation; and, for some, a sense of spiritual and intellectual disorientation that can lead to resentment, fear, nostalgia, and/or a disordered desire for absolute certainty and rigid authority. How can religious traditions be maintained and even thrive in such an environment? How do they negotiate...
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Most Christians believe that Jesus will return; believers are waiting for this. For the past 180 years, evangelical Christians have been taught about the rapture doctrine, which says that Christians get taken from the earth before the great tribulation. The Scriptures are clear on the subject. The Bible tells us that the church will partner with God in the last days and see millions come to Christ. The people of God are not called to fear but to faith....
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The concept behind this book is found first in the text of Mark chapter five which we will discuss below. Here the authorized version of the Bible states that “virtue” went out of Yeshua which healed a woman with an issue of blood for twelve years. This transference of “virtue” can be seen as an Emanation of God's power. Thus, the healing power used was an Emanation of God's virtuous power. Within Jewish spiritual tradition, the Emanations...
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