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Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination Paperback / softback - 1995
by Stephen R. Haynes
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- Title Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination
- Author Stephen R. Haynes
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition New
- Pages 221
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky:
- Date 1995-04-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780664255794
- ISBN 9780664255794 / 0664255795
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.44 x 0.52 in (21.49 x 13.82 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Judaism (Christian theology), Jews in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-22554
- Dewey Decimal Code 231.76
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From the rear cover
Stephen Haynes takes a hard look at contemporary Christian theology as he explores the pervasive Christian "witness-people" myth that dominates much Christian thinking about the Jews in both Christian and Jewish minds. This myth, an ancient theological construct that has put Jews in the role of living symbols of God's dealings with the world, has for centuries, according to Haynes, created an ambivalence toward the Jews in the Christian mind with often disastrous results. Tracing the witness-people myth from its origins to its manifestations in the modern world, Haynes finds the myth expressed in many unexpected places: the writings of Karl Barth, the novels and essays of Walker Percy, the "prophetic" writings of Hal Lindsey, as well as in the work of some North American Holocaust theologians such as Alice L. and A. Roy Eckardt, Paul van Buren, and Franklin Littell.