Uneasy Allies? Evangelical and Jewish Relations

by Mittleman, Alan; Johnson, Byron R.; Isserman, Nancy; Ariel, Yaakov; Dorrien, Gary; Felson, Ethan; Green, John C.; Grossman, Lawrence; Kosmin, Barry A.; Mamo, George W.; McDermott, Gerald R.; Neff, David; Poupko, Yehiel; Schrag, Carl; Silk, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780739119655
• ISBN10: 0739119656
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups which have been largely estranged from one another. Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman bring together a collection of critical essays that investigate how each group perceives the other and the evolution of their relationship together.

Table of Contents

Is America Christian? Religion in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	p. 1
Evangelical Protestants and Jews: A View from the Polls	p. 19
How Wide is the Social Distance Between Jews and Evangelicals?	p. 39
The Organized Jewish Community and Evangelical America: A Brief History	p. 49
"Luckier Than Moses": The Future of the Jewish-Evangelical Alliance	p. 73
On the Road: The Jewish Community Relations Encounter with Evangelical Christians	p. 85
Evangelical Ironies: Theology, Politics, and Israel	p. 103
Evangelicals and Israel	p. 127
Jews and Evangelicals - Between Prophecy and Mitzvot	p. 155
American Jews and Evangelical Christians: Anatomy of a Changing Relationship	p. 167
Last Things: The Future of Jews and Evangelicals in American Public Life	p. 179
Notes for a Jewish-Evangelical Conversation	p. 187
What Makes Evangelical and Jewish Relations Uneasy?	p. 199
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