From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews ambiguously.
Major Christian thinkers of antiquity - while disparaging their Jewish contemporaries for rejecting Christian truth - depicted the Jewish past and future in balanced terms, iden.
Given its roots within the Jewish community of first-century Palestine, there was much in Judaism that demanded Church admiration and praise; however, as Jews continued to resist Christian truth, there was also much that had to be condemned.
From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews ambiguously