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Title: The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (Radical Traditions) by John Howard Yoder, Michael G. Cartwright, Peter Ochs ISBN: 0-8028-1362-3 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A primary thesis that the schism "did not have to be"
Comment: Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Michael G. Cartwright and Peter Ochs, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited is a posthumous collection of essays by John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) "revisiting" the Jewish-Christian split in the light of Yoder's primary thesis that the schism "did not have to be". The editors place Yoder's discourse within the context of dialogue with Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild. Examining the whole debate in light of theological understanding of what it means to be Christian, Jewish, or a "missionary" people, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited is a welcome and engaging contribution to Judeo/Christian Religious Studies collections and supplemental reading lists.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extremely important text(s) (nearly ruined)
Comment: The essays in this collection are some of the most important, original, and illuminating contributions to the study of Jewish-Christian relations/origins that I have come across. I think these essays are a "must-read" for any person interested in this field or related fields of study and also, especially, any committed Jew or Christian.
However, I have a huge problem with the way this book was put together. The essays were originally written at different times and for different purposes/occasions, and collected informally near the end of Yoder's life as a "desktop publication" to be printed out and delivered on request. The present volume contains all of those original essays, however it also unfortunately contains an intro, an afterword, and _"commentaries"_following_each_essay_, written by extremely ill-chosen, uncomprehending, smaller minded (no personal offense is meant here) authors who are often nearly hostile to Yoder's thought(s) and who essentially seem to be using what little of his thought they agree with to push their own agendas, which have precious little to do with Yoder's.
I have never in my life heard of the first edition of any book, much less by a deceased author incapable of protesting or composing a response, being undertaken in such a disrespectful, manipulative manner. Shame on Stanley Hauerwas, Eerdmans, and the editors; I think the essays' potential for changing minds and lives has been greatly diminished by them.
But again, all negative elements of the published book aside, by all means, read these terribly important essays.
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Title: Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence by Stanley M. Hauerwas ISBN: 1587430762 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Jews and Christians: People of God by Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson ISBN: 0802805078 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Paul Among the Postliberals by Douglas Harink ISBN: 158743041X Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster by John Howard Yoder ISBN: 0802807348 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Democracy and Tradition by Jeffrey Stout ISBN: 0691102937 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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