so troubling about Ericksen’s account is his demonstration that Tillich and Hirsch were not only close friends, but also that their theology was essentially the same. They differed only on what political implications came from their theology.) Liberal theology had spent decades reassuring us that we did not have to take the Jewishness of Jesus seriously. The particulars of this faith, the limiting, historically contingent, narrative specifics of the faith, such as the Jewishness of Jesus or his messianic