HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Our Father Abraham Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith
Migration and the Making of Global Christianity
SECOND EDITION
Jehu J. Hanciles
Marvin R. Wilson
Foreword by Philip Jenkins
On the vital link between Judaism and Christianity
A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in Christianity’s spread
This new edition of Our Father Abraham features a new preface, an expanded bibliography of recent relevant works, and two new chapters: one that discusses Jewish-Christian relations after the Holocaust and another that reflects on Marvin Wilson’s own fifty-plus-year career as an evangelical Christian deeply committed to interfaith dialogue. As Christians and Jews feel a growing need for mutual support in an increasingly secular Western world, Wilson’s widely acclaimed book will offer encouragement and wise guidance toward this worthy end. “The timeliness of Marv Wilson’s book was evident by its initial reception and growing audience over the years. Three decades later, this second edition shows the timelessness of both the subject and his insights.” — JAMES WHITMAN Center for Judaic-Christian Studies
“Our Father Abraham is a stunning achievement! Marvin Wilson has written a magnificent book that breaks new ground in furthering positive Christian-Jewish relations. His superb scholarship is combined with many concrete suggestions for building a new relationship between the church and the synagogue, between Christians and Jews.” — RABBI A. JAMES RUDIN The American Jewish Committee
“For the first time someone has given the person in the pew an understanding of just what the Jewishness of Jesus means for his or her everyday life.” — JERUSALEM PERSPECTIVE
Marvin R. Wilson, a leading scholar on Christian-Jewish relations, is the Harold J. Ockenga Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, where he taught for over fifty years. He also wrote Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage—a sequel to Our Father Abraham—and served as primary scholar of the award-winning national television documentary Jews & Christians: A Journey of Faith, based on Our Father Abraham. 978-0-8028-7733-8 | Paperback | 424 pages | $29.99 US | $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK Available July 2021
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“This fascinating book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in how Christianity came to be a worldwide religion.” — DANA L. ROBERT Boston University School of Theology
“This is must-reading for anyone trying to understand the social dynamics of the Christian past and its contemporary global character.” — DOUGLAS JACOBSEN author of The World’s Christians: Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There
“This is a fine book with breath-taking scope that refreshes church history and sheds new light on the global spread of Christianity before the modern era.” — KIRSTEEN KIM Fuller Theological Seminary
“This book is a highly important contribution to a more polycentric approach to the history of world Christianity.” — KLAUS KOSCHORKE Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
“No book has shown more convincingly how Christianity in its first fifteen hundred years spread throughout the globe thanks to migrations.”
— PETER C. PHAN
Georgetown University
Jehu J. Hanciles is the D. W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity and director of the World Christianity program at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Originally from Sierra Leone, he is also the author of Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West and Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context. 978-0-8028-7562-4 | Jacketed Hardcover | 479 pages | $45.00 US | $60.99 CAN £36.99 UK | Available
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