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Title: A defense of Judaism versus proselytizing Christianity
Author: Isaac Mayer Wise
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A defense of Judaism versus proselytizing Christianity
Author: Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
Subject: Christianity -- Controversial literature; Judaism -- Apologetic works
Publisher: Cincinnati : American Israelite
Year: 1889
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 488909
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Source: Archive.org
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THE volume hereby presented to the reader was written -*- and published in
response to those missionary cheiftains of the city of Cincinnati who took a
vulgar renegade from Judaism by his hand, and appointed him a missionary to the
Jews; and, notwithstanding the man's illiteracy, furnished him with a pulpit,
and invited the Jews week after week by pompous advertisements in the public
press and handbills freely distributed in the streets, to come and hear that
renegade. The author, considering that uncalled-for action of church
dignitaries an insult to Judaism, felt it his duty to resent it, and so he did.
Here is an answer to the main question, why the Israelite can not embrace
Christianity. Quite a number of books exists, in which the relative points are
discussed, although the author recollects none written from his standpoint of
universal brotherhood, universal salvation and universal religion, moral
freedom, political equality and the supremacy of reason, with the highest
respect for Judaism, Christianity, the Islam and every other religion in
harmony with the postulate of reason and the standard of conscience.
(Preface)
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