Members’ Chapters and Articles
Book Chapters and Journal Articles by Our Members
The articles listed here have been written or edited by Yachad BeYeshua members, and the viewpoints expressed may not necessarily reflect the positions of Yachad BeYeshua.
Lee B. Spitzer, “The Baptist World Alliance and Antisemitism: An Historical Overview” (Journal of European Baptist Studies 21.1 (2021)
This historical study investigates how the Baptist World Alliance responded to the struggles of the Jewish people throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in light of Baptist core convictions, as expressed in World Congress and General Council resolutions
and statements.
Richard S. Harvey, “Beyond Augsburg: Messianic Jews in Church and Synagogue” Lutheran Forum (Summer 2016)
Brief history of Jewish believers in Jesus and contemporary expressions of Messianic Judaism, theological distinctives and relevance to Lutherans today.
David J. Rudolph, “Messianic Jews and Christian Theology: Restoring an Historical Voice to the Contemporary Discussion” Pro Ecclesia 14:1 (2005)
The aim of this study is to address the query, "Should there be a place for the Messianic Jewish perspective in Christian theology?
Richard Harvey, “Messianic Jewish Theology: A Preliminary Typology” Norwegian Journal of Missiology (2019)
This article proposes an eight-fold typology of Messianic Jewish theologies. It characterises the views of reflective practitioners within the movement of Messianic Judaism by summarising their views on God, Torah and Is-rael in the light of the Jewish and Christian theologies that have influenced their development.
Mark S, Kinzer, “Finding Our Way Through Nicaea: The Deity of Yeshua, Bilateral Ecclesiology, and Redemptive Encounter with the Living God” Kesher 24 (Summer 2010)
A few years ago, a controversy erupted in the Israeli Messianic Jewish movement over the question, “Is Yeshua God?” This paper examines the question in all of its complexity.
Antoine Levy, "Supersessionism and Messianic Judaism, A response to Matthew Levering”, Mishkan Jerusalem 74, (2015)
The idea that a Jew can remain faithful to his or her Jewish identity while acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel is a founding statement of Messianic Judaism. Accordingly, the fact that for the Catholic Church, the dialogue with traditional Judaism and the dialogue with Messianic Judaism rests on two mutually exclusive sets of axioms.
Lee B. Spitzer, “The Nazi Persecution of the Jews and Scottish Baptist Indignation” Baptistic Theologies 9:2 (2017)
As Hitler rose to power and the Nazis began to discriminate against Jews, Baptists around the globe responded in different ways. This article chronicles the responses of the Baptist Union of Scotland, who throughout the Holocaust era protested against the persecution of the Jews in Europe.
Antoine Levy, “Halakha and Salvation: A Catholic approach to post-postmissionary Messianic Judaism” Mishkan Jerusalem 79 (2018)
Im response to Mark Kinzer’s post- supersessionist theology, Levy asks “What kind of Jewish presence in the Church should there be in order for the Church to be truly Catholic - or universal in the qualitative sense of the term?”
Matthew Friedman’s chapter in “Back to the Future: Nineteenth Century Foundations of Messianic Judaism,” in Lalsangkima Pachuau & Knud Jørgensen, ed., Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age. Edinburgh 2010 Series, Vol. 7 (Oxford: Regnum, 2011), 204-213.
After centuries of mostly hostility and neglect by the Christian community, a fresh hope for witness to the Jews was to dawn with the nineteenth century, over the course of which about 205,000 Jewish people would profess faith in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. This movement featured a colorful cast of characters, two of whom we will briefly examine here: Joseph Samuel Frey and Joseph Rabinowitz.