Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-384) and index.
Contents
pt. I. Parables -- 1. Sion's Story -- 2. Tales of Two Texts -- 3. Synagoga and Ecclesia -- pt. II. Parables in Context -- 4. Jews and Christians in Historical Perspective -- 5. Revised Story for the Church: Supersessionism Replaced -- pt. III. Christian Origins in Context -- 6. Complex World of First-Century Judaism -- 7. Jesus' World: "A Composition of Place" -- 8. "Jesus' Renewal Movement" Becomes "Christianity" -- 9. Partings: Christianity's Prolonged and Polemical Break with Judaism -- 10. Emergence of a Distinctive Christian Theology -- pt. IV. Christian Origins in the Church's Life -- 11. New Lens on Scripture -- 12. Liturgy: A Call to Conversion -- 13. Cross as a Christian Symbol -- pt. V. Ecclesia Changing -- 14. Ecclesia's New Posture: The Transformation in Church Teaching -- 15. Re-educating Ecclesia. App. God's Mercy Endures Forever.