God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us

Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy cultural isolation and defamation of religions other than Judaism. This book is traditional in taking chosenness and the truth of Judaism seriously and in eschewing a theology of multiple covenants. At the same time it is critical rejecting previous concepts of chosenness and innovative offering for the twenty-first century a fresh way of seeing the Jews' place in the world. On this foundation Gellman suggests a new approach to inter-religious understanding from a Jewish point of view and examines the impact of his proposal on traditional Jewish liturgy.