Judaism as a free church: footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited.(Critical essay) From: Cross Currents | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Boyarin, Daniel | COPYRIGHT 2007 Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

At the very beginning of his posthumously published volume, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, John Howard Yoder wrote:

 
    A wide stream of literature, some erudite and original, some 
    creatively popular, has opened up the inadequacies of the traditions 
    through which both Jews and Christians have interpreted our 
    differences for centuries. Yet most of the redefinition going on in 
    the vast scholarly literature still is engaged in making adjustments 
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