Estranged Bedfellows
Besides Jesus, what drove Jews and Christians apart from the beginning?
Chris Hall reviews Jaroslav Pelikan's Whose Bible Is It? | posted 9/01/2006 12:00AM
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Yet despite this disagreement, it is we who have been graciously invited by God to join Israel's story. The better we understand our differences regarding the Christ, the more effective future communication between our two communities will be, two communities whose future is inextricably linked.
Chris Hall is provost of Eastern University and dean of the Templeton Honors College.
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profiled Jaroslav Pelikan in 1990 after his work on the history of doctrine.
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