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Judaism and Christianity: Rivals or Partners?
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The question in my title will perhaps seem odd; that I ask it at this time is the result of a cobbler not having stuck to his last. A theologian by training, I have been in fact more concerned with history than theology; a Christian by belief, I have, for more than ten years, been occupied with the attempt to understand Judaism; and a parson by calling, I have been concerned with political and international rather than with parochial or ecclesiastical matters. And, as a result of these three peculiar interests, the question I have here asked has come to assume for me a completely unexpected importance.
Nor is the question here posed from the standpoint of that modem eclecticism which puts all religions more or less on an equal footing, so that I might equally have asked the question of Christianity and Islam, or any other pair of the historic faiths of mankind. Rather the question only arises because there is an intimacy of relation between these two which is not paralleled elsewhere. And it arises in the particular form in which I have put it because the conventional explanations given by either side as to the position of the other seems to me partly untrue and partly untenable.
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