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Prof. Rylaarsdam Clarifies Position
Discussed in His Midrasha Lecture
Editor, The Jewish News:
Pastor Dennis Nordmoe, a good
friend who was once my student
• . has asked me to supplement
▪ . the report on my lecture, car-
ried in The Jewish News. At the
risk of compounding confusion, I'll
make an attempt.
At the very beginning of my lec-
ture, I cited three ways in which
Christians have persistently sought
to state the difference between
their faith and Judaism, to claim
its superiority:
1—Love (vs. justice) as an ethic-
al norm.
2—Universalism, the availability
of the message of God's power and
goodness to all men.
3—Law and Gospel, man's rela-
tionship with God as demand or as
grace.
I rejected all three of these as
providing a "key" to the differ-
ence between our two faiths, both
because they belie the facts about
Jewish faith and because the key
to the distinction lies elsewhere.
Pastor Nordmoe's objection to
your report involves No. 3. He is
correct in his statement that I re-
jected the traditional Law—Gospel
antithesis as descriptive of the two
faiths. What I said was that both
in the Jewish Bible and in the
Christian New Testament the de-
mands of God upon man are al-
ways made in the context of a
setting in which God has already
done, or is doing, what man can
not do for himself.
In both traditions, law is a gift
precisely because its antecedent
setting is God's mercy and re-
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demption. I illustrated this by
citing the opening words of the
Decalogue: "I am the LORD thy
God that brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt . . ."
I am painfully aware that Chris-
tianity has always grossly mis-
represented Judaism at this point,
as at so many others. In a small
way, I am trying to acknowledge
the error by trying to find more
honest ways of stating the differ-
ence between the two faiths and the
nature of their relationship. The
main part of my lecture was pre-
occupied with that concern.
Though I am not the only Chris-
tian theologian engaged in this
critical and radical reassessment,
it is still a pioneering venture. So,
I am not at all surprised if, after
nearly 2,000 years of a fixed pole-
mical "line," Jewish ears do not at
once register a new Christian ap-
proach to this matter! That is
especially the case in this instance,
since I did not develop the issue
at all but dealt with it very brief-
ly, to set it aside as inadequate
and unpromising as a way of deal-
ing with my assigned topic, "How
Christians Differ."
I want to close by again express-
ing my great appreciation for the
opportunity you gave me at the
Midrasha and to thank you for
your gracious hospitality.
Sincerely,
J. COERT RYLAARSDANI
Divinity School
University of Chicago
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SUNDAY!
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MRS. JEFFREY ROBINSON
In a candlelight ceremony at
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Sandra Rog-
gin became the bride of Jeffrey
Robinson Sunday. The couple's
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Benja-
min Roggin of Virginia Dr., South-
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Rabbi Irwin Groner and Cantor
Jacob Sonenklar officiated at the
ceremony, after which the couple
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in Phoenix.
The bride wore an Empire-
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as well as the wide scalloped
lace border on the attached
chapel train. A bonnet of match-
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cathedral-length veil. She carried
three long-stem roses on a moth-
er-of-pearl prayer book.
Mrs. Steven Greenberg, sister of
the bridegroom, was matron of
honor, and Deborah Roggin, the
bride's sister, was maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Mrs. Gary Bald-
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Steven Greenberg was best man,
and ushers were David Hirschfield,
Joel Serlin, Terry Shapiro and.
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