Our father Abraham : Jewish roots of the Christian faith /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Marvin R., 1935- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021.
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: A new people: Abraham's spiritual children. The root and branches
  • Gentiles, Jews, and Jewish heritage
  • Part 2: Church and synagogue in the light of history. The earliest church and Judaism
  • Theological conflict and persecution
  • "Heretics" and the synagoge
  • The Jewish revolts and the parting of the way
  • A history of contempt: anti-semitism and the church
  • Part 3: Understanding Hebrew thought. The Old Testament: Hebraic foundation of the church
  • The contour of Hebrew thought
  • Where the church went wrong
  • Part 4: Jewish heritage and the church: selected studies. Marriage and the family through Hebrew eyes
  • Passover and Last Supper
  • Jews, Christians, and the land
  • A life of learning: the heart of Jewish heritage
  • Part 5: Toward restoring Jewish roots. If not now...when? Part 6: In retrospect: reflections on Christian-Jewish relations from Auschwitz to the present. The Holocaust and Christian - Jewish relations
  • My story: the odyssey and reflections of an evangelical in interfaith dialogue.