
Truth, Tears, Turning, and Trusting
A Pastor's Plea to End Our Ongoing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
Ron Simkins(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 15. June 2020
144 pages
978-1-7252-6309-3 (ISBN)
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To a startling extent, we Christians have related, and still relate, to Jewish people in ways that encourage anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism. We often do this as we exegete the Bible in our sermons, classrooms, and books. Our sins against Jews can be just as horrendous when they flow from our ignorance, arrogance, and privilege as when they are the expression of outright prejudices. This book is a plea for Christians to live up to the challenge Jesus, as well as the great writing prophets of the Old Testament, set for us. We must learn to tell the truth rather than hiding from it, to shed the tears of broken hearts, choose turning from our old ways to new paths, and practice trusting that God will bless the efforts. Although the author believes it is important to know that the mostly Jewish writers of the New Testament were not rejecting their Jewish roots, and certainly were not anti-Semitic, he acknowledges that church history ensures that there is almost no other way to hear some passages today. We can choose a new path that honors Jesus and honors all we owe the Jewish people past and present.
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English
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-7252-6309-3 (9781725263093)
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Ron Simkins
Truth, Tears, Turning, and Trusting
A Pastor's Plea to End Our Ongoing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
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Ron Simkins
Truth, Tears, Turning, and Trusting
A Pastor's Plea to End Our Ongoing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
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06/2020
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Ron Simkins has pastored for five decades in a multicultural, top-tier university community. After a year of engineering study at the University of Tennessee, he received a BA from Johnson Bible College, an MA in New Testament Language and Literature, and an MDiv in Semitic Languages and Literature from Lincoln Christian Seminary, then continued further graduate work in philosophy at the University of Illinois. He loves a wonderful family that now includes five great-grandchildren.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Jesus's Jewishness-An Inconvenient Truth?
- My Personal Debt to Jewish Friends and Writers
- There Are No Acceptable Excuses.
- Christian Fundamentalist Zionism
- Some of What We Need to Confess and Lament
- A Few Practical Pastoral Responses
- Fulfillment Was Never Meant to Be Replacement.
- New Testament Authors Did Not Intend to Be Anti-Judaism or Anti-Semitic.
- Followers of Jesus Have Been Big Losers Too.
- Debts Followers of Jesus Owe the Jews
- Can Followers Of Jesus Move Beyond The Church's Anti-Semitism?
- Bibliography
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