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The Preface states, “… in this monograph the author clearly sets ancient and modern Jewish thought over against Christian thought and demonstrates that there can only be opposition between them when both are advocated from the standpoint of their respective ‘standards’ and presuppositions…The Christian who is concerned that his witness to the Jew be scripturally sound and honoring to his Lord...

I trust someone without being able to offer sufficient reasons for my trust in him; the other from the fact that, likewise without being able to give a sufficient reason I acknowledge a thing to be true.”6 We may in general, says Buber, speak of the former as Jewish and of the second as Christian. But the distinction is not absolute. For in early Christianity the Christian type of faith was joined with the Jewish one.7 Gradually the two types of faith appear to be in contrast with one another.