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Healing the Schism: Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, and the New Jewish-Christian Encounter is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

specific stipulations of Israel’s covenantal life with God are subsumed into this one overarching act—knowing Christ and making him known. If we return to Marshall’s central question, we begin to clearly see the disconnect in Barth’s theology. To put it succinctly, Barth essentially severs Jewishness from Judaism, both with regard to Christ and true obedience to the law. That Christ is the fullness of the law apparently leaves no room for the ongoing practice of the Holiness Code in all of its sanctifying
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