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Dictionary definition: Jews, Christian attitudes to
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- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Jews, Christian attitudes to.
Christianity shares much common ground with Judaism.
Jesus Christ
was a Jew, as were the earliest members of the Church. The foundation for the separation of Christianity from Judaism was laid by St
Paul's
practice of not requiring
Gentile
converts to Christianity to be circumcised and his contention that their new covenant relationship with God was based on faith in God, not works of the law. The persecution of Jewish Christians and their expulsion from the
synagogue
caused bitterness. All four Gospels tend to exonerate the Roman power that crucified Jesus by shifting blame to the Jewish authorities, and from the early 2nd cent. Christian writers put forward a ...
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Article: WELCOMING NEW JEWS TO JUDAISM
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);
September 27, 1993 ;
700+ words
... ... taboos have fallen. For Jews, this trend has been especially ... 1983, however, Reform Judaism expanded the definition of a Jew to include patrilineal Jews, people whose father is ... 000 people convert to Judaism each year, and there are ...
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