Covenant and civility.(Book Review)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Mittleman, Alan | Copyright information

FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: THE NEW ENCOUNTER BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY By IRVING GREENBERG Jewish Publications Society of America 274 pp. $20 paper.

THE TITLE OF Irving Greenberg's collection of essays--For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity--neatly captures the thrust of the book. Judaism and Christianity must rediscover and affirm one another for the sake of heaven and earth. Each religion is incomplete withou...