The fragile—because of time, language and culture—documents Christians call their scriptures remain a timeless resource for memory, consolation as well as personal and communal conversion and growth. Like other resources they have been misused to promote selfish, misguided ends. Misuse does not mean a resource itself is flawed or abysmal.
Some have misused the New Testament writings to vilify Jewish people. To Jesuit Nicholas King that misuse is shameful. He concisely shows that the “extraordinary library that is the New Testament…was written by good Jews, and that it is unfounded, even perverse, to call it ‘anti-Jewish.’”
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