Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self Understanding. By Mary C. Boys. Studies in Judaism and Christianity: Exploration of Issues in the Contemporary Dialogue Between Christians and Jews. New York: Paulist Press, 2000. 393 pp. $29.95 (paper).
This passionately argued challenge to Christian supersessionism is based on a claim that, while not new, remains an important starting point for effective Jewish-Christian dialogue. Boys reminds us that careful consideration of the complicated historical contexts of Christian polemics against Judaism and Jews is essential if Christians are to understand and repudiate the anti-Semitism that has so pervasively …