Preaching the Letters Without Dismissing the Law: A Lectionary Commentary - Ronald J. Allen, Clark Williamson

This book is a follow-up to an earlier volume by Ronald J. Allen and Clark M. Williamson - `Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the Jews.' Like that book, this is also a commentary with an agenda and a context. The agenda is to reduce the not-always-latent tendency toward supersessionism in North American pulpits. This might require some explanation -- supersessionism is a 'big word' not many have encountered. Supersessionism in this context refers to the tendency of looking at Judaism and the Jews of the pre-Christian times as simple prelude and precursors to Christianity -- that the only ... more