Christianity and Judaism: Two Faiths Talking About Different Things

The earliest Christians were Jews and saw their religion, Judaism, as normative and authoritative. A natural question troubling believing Christians, therefore, is why Judaism as a whole remains a religion that believes other things, or, as Christians commonly ask, "Why did the Jews not 'accept Christ'?" or "Why, after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is there Judaism at all?" Often asked negatively, the question turns on why the Jews do not believe, rather than on what they do believe. Ye...