Judaism: Between Yesterday and Today
Bemporad, Eugene Fisher and Jack
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...duction to the several fields that it under- ly "excommunicated" Jewish Christians...
...Three viewers came away from this volume with Kung tends to rely on one or two volumes, pages are not adequate to define the issue a feeling of being let down by its eminent seldom explaining why he has chosen one of Paul and the Law...
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...self-criticism" The Bible in Catechesis or to his own, it is of each tradition in the light of the other...
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...modernity (Abraham Heschel, Joseph The Homily and Catechesis So it is with anticipation that one ap- Soloveitchik, Abraham Geiger, Louis Formation of Conscience proaches Kung's monumental volume on Jacobs, Zacharias Frankel, and Mordecai Catechesis for Justice and Peace Judaism and Jewish-Christian relations...
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...While the volume's heft and vo- particular school over another, or, in some sentences are not sufficient discussion to luminous academic apparatus give it the cases, even indicating the existence of mul- preclude the Jewish people from using their appearance of a major work, we cannot tiple alternative views...
...Modern Jewish Orthodoxy a bare two hundred pages to summarize support his claim was actually written to is written off as "Pharisaic-Talmudic...faithvirtually all of Jewish history since refute it...
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...author's reliance on the 1991 Gulf War as ing presentation to limitations inherent in Twenty-five pages, for example, is not sufits guiding paradigm...
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...Reese's interests are fundamentally on the American hierarchy like A Flock A Workshop for Diocesan Staff, organizational, and I suspect he is content of Shepherds...
...This last example brings us to our third takes to survey, much less a useful Kung represents this alleged expulsion as and most delicate reflection...
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