Description Israel\'s election, calling, and history make up a big part of Scripture.
This new canonical approach restores the ongoing meaning of Israel to God\'s purpose in creation and consummation and hence the unity of purpose for Israel and the church." --Daniel Juster, director of Tikkun Ministries International "Ever since the Holocaust Christian theologians have reexam.
In the case of the latter, a more deeply rooted biblical identity of the church arises on the basis of a new canonical approach to biblical theology.
Westerman has written a very important book that revolutionizes our understanding of both Israel and the church.
J.
Kendall Soulen, Emory University, Atlanta "E. the contents of the book have impressed me as accessible, engaging, detailed, and often profound." --R. . . "Learning Messiah by Edjan Westerman is a full scale biblical theology that is passionately Christian and passionately \'post-supersessionist\' in equal measure .
And we find ourselves confronted by the question: How does the narrative of the Bible then look when the whole of Scripture plays a decisive role, and the faithfulness of God toward Israel stays in the center? This book presents an answer to these questions, calling us to learn to read God\'s way anew, and to walk in it.
It could be said that they belong to the "DNA of the Bible." But why is it then that the Christian narrative about the Messiah, Israel, and the nations, often seemed to have and sometimes even still has a different "genetic structure"? Does Israel--together with its election and promises--leave God\'s stage through a side door, when Jesus appears on stage? Does a changing of roles take place, within a different story? Does the Messiah function within it as some kind of "black hole" in which the eternal election and calling of Israel disappear? How do we read God\'s way? The Holocaust made us realize that our de-Jew-ized reading and preaching of Scripture contributed in various ways to this catastrophe.
Description Israel\'s election, calling, and history make up a big part of Scripture
