Bible Review

Paul Van Buren’s three-volume theology of the Jewish-Christian reality is the most important Christian work to appear on this subject. See A Theology of the Jewish-Christian Reality: Discerning the Way (New York: Seabury, 1980); A Theology of the Jewish-Christian Reality, Part II: A Christian Theology of the People Israel (New York: Seabury, 1983); and A Theology of the Jewish Christian Reality, Part III: Christ in Context (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1988).

Mary C. Boys, Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding (New York: Paulist, 2000), pp. 49–74.

The recent publication of James Carroll’s powerful and popular book, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2001) has moved the discussion of this critical problem into the public arena. I have drawn heavily from this book and from Reuther’s Faith and Fratricide in my discussion.

Rosemary Reuther, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Seabury, 1974), chap. 2, pp. 64f.

Calvin, “Institutes,” p. 28.

Calvin, “Institutes,” p. 28.

John Calvin, “The Institutes of the Christian Religion,” in Jack C. Verheyden, The Knowledge of the Existence of God in Protestant Theology, Dialogue and Alliance, vol. I, no. 1, Spring 1987, parts iii, v, pp. 27f.

Justin Martyr, “The Second Apology,” in Christopher Morse, ed., Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1994), p. 147.

H. Richard Niebuhr, The Meaning of Revelation (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952), p. 93.

Stanley Stowers, A Rereading of Romans (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 313–316.