Divergence: Examining Jewish-Christian Relations in the Early Church
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Overview
Sadly, anti-Semitism is on the rise across the globe. Sadder still, some of it comes from Christians. How is it that some who follow Jesus—the Jewish Messiah promised in the Hebrew Bible—could come to regard the Jewish people with prejudice and hostility? Could there be a historical or biblical root beneath this sentiment?
In Divergence, Solberg traces Christian theology and attitudes toward the Jewish people from the New Testament through the writings of the early Church fathers to the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. In the process, he presents the modern Christian with a biblical perspective on anti-Semitism and how they are to treat their Jewish brothers and sisters. Despite its academic subject matter, Divergence offers a compelling read for the average Christian interested in the early history of the faith.
Was there anti-Semitism as we know it today? Was the theology of the New Testament corrupted because of anti-Jewish sentiment? This compelling historical journey reveals that all was not as you might think.
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- Provides a scholarly yet accessible investigation into the “parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity.
- Looks at the Early Church Fathers’ writings exploring how their rhetoric began to distance the Church from its Jewish roots.
- Reconstructs the era when the lines between “Jew” and “Christian” were not yet clearly drawn, focusing on the tensions within the earliest community.
- Introduction
- Historical Context
- Persecution
- Public Discourse & Religious Convictions
- Racial Relations In Antiquity
- New Testament Writings
- The Apostle Paul
- Jesus and the Jews
- Those Who Deny Christ
- New Testament Summary
- Two Theological Markers
- Early Christian Writings
- Historical Context
- The Parting of the Ways
- Early Writings
- Marcionism
- Dialogue with Trypho
- On the Pascha
- Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
- Summary of Early Christian Writings
- The Two Markers
- The Council of Nicaea
- Historical Background
- The Canons and Theology of the Council
- Summary of Nicaea
- The Two Markers
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Persecution of Jesus as Recorded in the Gospels
- Appendix B: Ten Commandments as Referenced in the NT
- Appendix C: Early Christian Writings (Ante-Nicene Era)
- Appendix D: On the Pascha
- Appendix E: On the Keeping of Easter