The Christian church should not conduct missionary activities among Jews because “they are futile” and also because Christianity and Judaism are enough alike “for the Jew to find God more easily in terms of his own religious heritage” rather than in undergoing “the hazards” of conversion.
These views were advanced by Rev. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, a leading Protestant theologian, in the April issue of The C.C. A. R. Journal, quarterly magazine of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. The conference is the major body of American Reform rabbis. Dr. Niebuhr’s article is entitled “The Relations of Christians and Jews in Western Civilization.”
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