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Herman Witsius’s The Jew Becoming a Christian is a powerful defense of the Christian faith, and a polemic against Judaism. Working extensively from Scripture and from Judaic sources themselves, Witsius examines the authority of the Old and New Testaments, challenges the claims of the Oral Law, Talmud, and Kabbalah, and argues for Jesus Christ as Israel’s promised Messiah. A substantial accompanying dissertation explores traces of Trinitarian doctrine in the Targums, rabbinic writings, and Kabbalistic sources, while carefully distinguishing these unreliable witnesses from the full revelation given in Christ and his Apostles. The volume also includes studies on the divine authority of Scripture, the work of the Holy Spirit, conscience, and the excellence of evangelical truth. Herman Witsius was ordained to the ministry of the gospel in 1657. In 1698, he was appointed to the chair of theology at Leyden by William III. He authored such works as The Economy of the Covenants and his Irenical Animadversions, which dealt with antinomianism and neonomianism in England.
6×9
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
332 pages
Herman Witsius’s The Jew Becoming a Christian is a powerful defense of the Christian faith, and a polemic against Judaism. Working extensively from Scripture and from Judaic sources themselves, Witsius examines the authority of the Old and New Testaments, challenges the claims of the Oral Law, Talmud, and Kabbalah, and argues for Jesus Christ as Israel’s promised Messiah. A substantial accompanying dissertation explores traces of Trinitarian doctrine in the Targums, rabbinic writings, and Kabbalistic sources, while carefully distinguishing these unreliable witnesses from the full revelation given in Christ and his Apostles. The volume also includes studies on the divine authority of Scripture, the work of the Holy Spirit, conscience, and the excellence of evangelical truth. Herman Witsius was ordained to the ministry of the gospel in 1657. In 1698, he was appointed to the chair of theology at Leyden by William III. He authored such works as The Economy of the Covenants and his Irenical Animadversions, which dealt with antinomianism and neonomianism in England.
6×9
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
332 pages
