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The past and future of Jewish-Christian dialogue. The history of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity is storied and tragic. However, recent decades show promise as both parties reflect on their self-definitions and mutual contingency and consider possible ways forward. In Healing the Schism, Jennifer M. Rosner maps the new Jewish-Christian encounter from its origins in the early...

vision of God.”211 Hence, from a Jewish perspective, just as Israel is unintelligible apart from Torah, so Torah is unintelligible apart from God. As Heschel powerfully explains, “Halacha must not be observed for its own sake but for the sake of God.… We live and die for the sake of God rather than for the sake of the law.”212 Like Barth, Heschel places faith at the center of an obedient life. In fact, Heschel’s description of the law sounds remarkably similar to Barth’s exposition of the Holiness
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