Jewish Church

A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism

Author: Antoine Lévy, O.P., Mark S. Kinzer and Antoine Lévy

For two millennia calling oneself a Jew and confessing Jesus-Christ was perceived as nonsense. This is no longer the case. Jewish believers in Christ - “Messianics”, Catholics, Orthodox, and so forth - are now reclaiming their Jewish identity. Jewish Church is about imagining what their home in the Church would look like.

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The idea of a Jewish Church has been banned from the Christian horizon for almost two millennia. But things are changing. Since the middle of the 70s the Messianic Jewish movement has strived to build an ecclesial home for all Jewish believers in Christ. This new phenomenon brings to life issues that had disappeared since the first centuries of the Church. What does it mean to be a Jew in the Church? Should there be a distinction between Jews and non-Jews among believers in Christ? Is such a distinction compatible with the unity of the whole Body of Christ so ardently preached by Paul? What lifestyle should this Church promote? In his various works, Mark Kinzer, a prominent Messianic Jewish theologian, has attempted to provide substantial answers to these questions. Antoine Lévy is a Dominican priest. With Kinzer, Lévy has launched the “Helsinki Consultation”, a cross-denominational gathering of Jewish theologians. In Jewish Church: A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism, Lévy examines Kinzer’s positions critically, bringing forward an alternative vision of what a “Jewish Church” could and should be. This is only the beginning of what promises to be a fascinating discussion.

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évy, a Cathoic Jew, is facing the most crucia chaenge of a fuy cathoic Ekkesia head-on: how do the two parts of humanity, the Jew and the non-Jew, come in the one fuy restored cathoic church of Jesus Christ? This book is a timey ceebration of the 'coming home” of Jewish beievers in the iving Body of the Messiah.

-- Benjamin Berger, Shepherd of the Jerusaem Messianic Congregation “Kehiat ha'Seh a Har Zion”

Fr. évy has written an important book. With his critica anaysis of various positions, he has profoundy and convincingy presented a case for continued Jewish identity and practice in Jesus. A chaenge to church eaders and to Messianic Jews on the eccesia unity of the Church.

-- Danie Juster, Founding President of Tikkun Internationa and the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations

Fr. évy enters into a critica conversation with the Messianic Jewish theoogy of Mark Kinzer and addresses the eccesia status of the Jewish peope within the Cathoic Church. évy’s masterfu presentation puts fesh on the bones of Eias Friedman OCD’s thesis in his book ‘Jewish identity’ and introduces critica considerations in the ongoing and vita theoogica discussions concerning the Jewish peope and the Church.

-- David Moss, President, Association of Hebrew Cathoics

Fr. Antoineévy has written a very important book in which he engages in an intensive ecumenica diaogue with the eccesioogy of Mark Kinzer, perhaps the most articuate and profound exponent of the theoogy of Messianic Judaism. What makes this diaogue so fruitfu is that évy evy shares the foundationa conviction of Kinzer on the need for a corporate Jewish presence in the Church that is structuray caed from the circumcision and from the Genties. évy differs quite substantiay, however, on the eccesia and iturgica forms that ought to shape this Jewish dimension of the Church, so that it may remain in a cathoic communion of faith, sacramenta ife, and hierarchica governance.

-- awrence Feingod, Assistant Professor of Theoogy at Ave Maria University