Has God Only One Blessing?: Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding

BOYS, Mary C.

ISBN 10: 0809139316 / ISBN 13: 9780809139316

Published by Paulist Press, 2000, 2000

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Pbk, 393pp, illustr, covers very faintly rubbed, otherwise an an unread copy, excellent ,clean, tight and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Has God Only One Blessing?: Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding
• Publisher: Paulist Press, 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809139316
• ISBN 13: 9780809139316
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Are we rivals for God's love? The Church has changed its thinking about Judaism, yet these changes are not yet known by most Christians. This compelling book, by respected religious-education theorist Mary Boys, makes the academic scholarship highly accessible. Her foremost challenge is for Christians to reexamine their two-fold tradition that Christianity has fulfilled the covenant and therefore replaced Judaism, and that the Jews, in rejecting Jesus, are now rejected by God. The book summarizes the Church's shared history with Judaism ... details the anti-Jewish bias in history, literature, and liturgy and how this bias exists today ... and examines how Church treatment of Jews played a role in the Shoah. The issues are presented without being reduced to simplistic hate. The author also includes practical pastoral points, not only suggesting sensitive ways for Christians to relate to Jews, but also revealing how encounters with Judaism affect the way Christians think, teach, and preach about life. This book is important for pastors, preachers, faith formation directors, religious educators, and members of liturgy and evangelization teams. It's also absorbing reading for adult classes, anyone interested in church history, all serious Christians, and Jews who want to situate the legacy of anti-Judaism while seeing substantial changes in thought. †

About the Author

Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M., is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary. The well-known religious-ed theorist is the author of three books, most recently Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One Woman's Experience, as well as dozens of articles and chapters in other publications. She's a member of the Christian Scholars Group on Jews and Judaism and the Abrahamic Accord and is an advisor to the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.