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Signposts to the Messianic Age »

Authors: John D. Rayner
ISBN-13: 9780853037033, ISBN-10: 0853037035
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine & Company
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Pt. I	Sermons
	The meaning of Mitzvah	3
	The golden rule	7
	Thou shalt not kill	11
	The mystery of the cherubim	15
	Encounter with modernity	19
	A response to orthodoxy	23
	The role of progressive Judaism	28
	Doing and hearing	33
	The Jewish religious union a hundred years on	37
	The open door	42
	Praying for humanity	47
	Our world and welcome to it	51
	We and they	55
	The big issue	60
	Beyond retribution	65
	Passion and peace	70
	Ashamnu : we have sinned	82
	Values	87
	Leadership	92
	Survival	97
	Road map to the Messianic Age	103
Pt. II	Lectures
	Hebraism : our common heritage and hope	109
	A Jewish view of Jesus	127
	The truth about the Pharisees : the evidence of the New Testament	144
	The suffering servant	156
	Good and evil in the classical sources of Judaism	168
	Principles of Jewish ethics	182
	Judaism and animal welfare : overview and some questions	195
	Some glimpses of the history of the Jewish liturgy	211
	The four children of the Passover Haggadah	225
	Universalising tendencies in Anglo-Jewish liturgy	239
	The ethical issues surrounding the Middle East	247
	Open letter to David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee	258