Irving Greenberg

A Sacred Argument

World Religions

“This book illuminates an ongoing miracle: the story of a reversal that is changing the great world religions from enemies into partners. In recounting the difficult yet exhilarating work of the ICJS, Christopher Leighton guides readers into the labor required to turn religion from the habits of contempt and ignorance into a constructive force for good, a blessing for all the families of the earth.”

Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World

Theology

“What a marvelous book! Here is a Christian Midrash, full of humane scholarship, driven by Christian and Jewish learning, sustained throughout by profound dialogue. Knight has dared to apply the Holocaust rigorously as a reorienting event for theology. He boldly reorients Christian thinking, reimagines Jesus' role and God's, while remaining deeply faithful to the distinctive power of the Christian and the Jewish traditions. Amazingly, in doing all this, he has harnessed the searing fire of the Shoah, turning it into a sun of righteousness, bringing healing.”

Elie Wiesel

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Judaism

World Religions

“This is an insightful, comprehensive and simpatico presentation of Judaism from which both Christians and Jews will benefit. The author writes from a modern Orthodox perspective but often presents the range of denominational views respectfully. This book combines meaningful instruction on Jewish religion with a remarkable parallel presentation of Christian conceptions of Judaism in historic context. Thus what has been called ‘the teaching of contempt’ tradition in Christianity is presented without anger or ‘guilting.’ This allows Christians of good will and Jews who want a better future for Jewish Christian relations to leave hostility and misrepresentation behind—a signal achievement. This book will be most useful to Christians of deep faith who seek to continue on the path of healing between Jesus’s family and the faith in which he grew and their covenant faith which brought the Gospel to the farthest reaches of the earth.”

Judaism, Christianity, and Liberation

World Religions

“A pioneering attempt to bring Christian liberation theologians into a needed positive dialogue with Judaism and Jewish theologians. Although unjust and one-sided in its treatment of Zionism, this book is worthwhile reading.”

Seeking Shalom

World Religions

“This masterful book lights our way in showing how a community can leave behind the inherited hatred, triumphalism, and disrespect that bring God's name into disrepute.”