Books by Jen
“This is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. As a Jewish follower of Jesus, Jen has affirmed much of my own experience and bore witness to something meaningful that God is doing. She has challenged me to reconsider things I thought settled and has taught me other things I did not know. She has done all of this in a volume that is brilliantly and cleverly arranged, using the pleasant sharing of her own story as a guide. It is another book that will serve as a marker for the larger conversation about reckoning the Jewishness of the Christian faith and Jewish identity in the world today.”
— Marty Solomon | Creator and Executive Producer of the BEMA Podcast and President of Impact Campus Ministries
“Jen Rosner interweaves her fascinating journey as a Messianic Jew navigating the tensions between Judaism and Christianity with an informative discussion of the Judaism of the earliest believers in Jesus. I heartily recommend her work here. Christians everywhere need to learn more about the Jewishness of the New Testament and the necessity of understanding of Jesus and Paul within their original Hebraic context.”
— Lois Tverberg | Author of Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus
“In Finding Messiah, Jennifer M. Rosner deftly weaves together her fascinating story of becoming a Jewish follower of Jesus with her adept theological investigation into the questions and implications surrounding Messianic Christianity. Rosner’s attempt to bridge the ancient rift between Jewish identity and Christian faith is timely and important. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.”
— Brian Zahnd | Author of When Everything’s on Fire
“Remember the famous exchange between Karl Barth and Franz Rosenzweig on the significance of Judaism for Christian faith, and of Christianity for Jewish faith? Of course not, because that is one of those great theological conversations that never happened — at least until now. In this exciting book, Jennifer M. Rosner orchestrates a meeting of minds between Barth and Rosenzweig, and she does so with reference to a phenomenon both thinkers foreshadow but neither foresaw: the emergence of theologically articulate Messianic Judaism. A creative and deeply probing work.”
— R. Kendall Soulen | Emory University
“How do Jews and Christians understand each other in the wake of the Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, and the rise of Messianic Judaism? What is the relation of Jewish practice to Christian claims that the Jewish messiah has come? No theologian can answer these questions without careful attention to Barth, Rosenzweig, Kinzer and — now — Jennifer M. Rosner.”
— Gerald R. McDermott | Beeson Divinity School
“This is the finest piece of theological work yet to emerge from the Messianic Jewish movement. Reflecting on the relationship between the Jewish people and the church in critical dialogue with Barth, Rosenzweig, Kinzer, and many others, Rosner addresses in a nuanced and sensitive way questions that go to the heart of both Jewish and Christian faith. More than that: she advances to a new level of clarity and rigor the difficult but needed theological conversation on the problems and promise of Messianic Judaism.”
— Bruce D. Marshall | Southern Methodist University
“What a delightful and informative read, and what an excellent example of respectful dialogue in the midst of substantial differences. Here you have two fine representatives of their respective positions, each articulate, each passionate, and each deeply committed to the Messianic Jewish vision. My own convictions were sharpened as I read, as I trust yours will be as well.”
— Dr. Michael L. Brown | President of FIRE School of Ministry, author of Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus
“This is a lively, intelligent, and provocative dialogue between two articulate members of the Messianic Jewish community, debating a topic central to Messianic Jewish identity. Key issues are clarified in their exchange. Even more significant is the way they model irenic disagreement (machloket) for the sake of Heaven. Highly recommended.”
— Rabbi Mark S. Kinzer | President Emeritus of Messianic Jewish Theological Institute
“Jennifer and Joshua offer us a window into a respectful, intelligent, and engaging exchange regarding a very important matter in Messianic Judaism. The relationship between the Torah and the Spirit is one that needs more exploration and conversation among the disciples of Yeshua. This book serves to move the dialog forward and will hopefully inspire additional efforts to develop more refined viewpoints on this topic.”
— Boaz Michael | Founder and Director of First Fruits of Zion
“This book is a welcome successor to Mark Kinzer’s 2005 groundbreaking work, Postmissionary Messianic Judaism. Not only does it provide clarifications on a number of theological issues raised in the many exchanges that followed that book’s publication, but the argument is also strengthened and deepened by extensive exegetical analyses. This is the kind of theological inquiry that both the Jewish Roots movement and the Messianic Jewish movement are so greatly in need of. Jennifer Rosner’s collaboration in this project is a promising sign that a new generation of Messianic Jewish scholars may be ready to accept the challenge.”
— Rev. Isaac Rottenberg | First Chairperson of the National Council of Churches Office on Christian-Jewish Relations, Former Executive Director of the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel
“This is a significant book. Although it is a collection of articles and addresses, it has a far greater coherence than such collections normally possess. This coherence flows directly from the coherence of Mark Kinzer’s life-project — to develop a form of Messianic Judaism that is authentically Jewish, and at the same time truly Messianic in the sense of fully recognizing the centrality of Jesus in God’s purpose for Israel and for the world. The author is a meticulous exegete and a systematic thinker familiar with the traditions of Judaism and of Christianity. This collection makes an invaluable contribution to the challenges presented by the Messianic Jewish movement and to the formation of a coherent Messianic Jewish theology.”
— Monsignor Peter Hocken | Member of International Doctrinal Commission for Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Former Executive Secretary of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in USA
“Whether one welcomes the Messianic Jewish movement wholeheartedly, with reservations, or not at all, the increasing importance of its voice in contemporary theological discussion is certain. This collection of essays by Mark Kinzer demonstrates again why the issues raised by Messianic Judaism are so fundamental in nature, and why Kinzer himself is widely regarded as the movement’s foremost theologian.”
— R. Kendall Soulen | Professor of Systematic Theology, Emory University, author of The God of Israel and Christian Theology
“Few scholars have had more impact than Mark Kinzer. This extraordinary volume is more than a festschrift; it is a testimony to a vision and to its spiritual fruitfulness, rooted in deep faith. An ever-gracious interlocutor and a brilliant and creative thinker, Mark Kinzer has charted a path worthy of the utmost attention.”
— Matthew Levering | Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
“Mark Kinzer has been a mentor and dialogue partner for many theologians of different religious affiliations wrestling with questions arising from the fact that Christ has called 'together a people made up of Jew and gentile' (Lumen Gentium §9). This festschrift of essays centering on Kinzer's vision of bilateral ecclesiology and the mission and witness of Jews in the church by an all-star cast of twenty-four scholars will be a catalyst to further reflection.”
— Lawrence Feingold | Professor of Theology, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St. Louis
“This beautiful volume includes essays by some of the most accomplished scholars working on the intersection between Judaism and Christianity. The notion that an observant Jew might confess Jesus as the Messiah will remain a complicated and controversial topic. There is no simple solution to this challenge, but this volume addresses a number of the sensitive dimensions of this issue in a non-polemical and post-supersessionist fashion.”
— Gary A. Anderson | Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre Dame
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