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Variations on the Messianic Theme
Marion Wyse
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Description for Variations on the Messianic Theme
Over fifty years after the Holocaust, this title explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have been addressed and Jewish-Christian dialogue have achieved a solid respect for each other, the but basic disagreement over the Christian designation of Jesus as the Jewish messiah still stands. Theologians have suggested varying approaches but none convince both partners, so this work employs William James' radical empirical method to show that the original Jewish messianic concept, the Christian shift, and the Jewish repudiation ... Read more
Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have been addressed and Jewish-Christian dialogue have achieved a solid respect for each other, the but basic disagreement over the Christian designation of Jesus as the Jewish messiah still stands. Theologians have suggested varying approaches but none convince both partners, so this work employs William James' radical empirical method to show that the original Jewish messianic concept, the Christian shift, and the Jewish repudiation ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Judaism and Jewish Life
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781934843475
SKU
V9781934843475
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About Marion Wyse
Marion Wyse is a Professor at the School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She is a multi-University of Toronto graduate, during which time Tyndale published her novel The Prophet and the Prostitute. Her ThD (1998) investigated the history of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue. She taught six years in China's Xiamen University and three in Moscow ... Read more
Reviews for Variations on the Messianic Theme
"Wyse's explorations, beginning post-Shoah and retracing the steps backward into history to recover the idea of the messianic concept, hopefully to bring about future redemption and the reign of God, about which Jesus spoke and which Wyse holds out as the highest ideal for both religions, are extremely important."
Libby Garshowitz, University of Toronto, Canada, published in the Journal ... Read more
Libby Garshowitz, University of Toronto, Canada, published in the Journal ... Read more