The Fellowship of Christians and Jews: Commonwealth Israel Foundation Edition

In The Fellowship of Christians and Jews, C. W. Steinle confronts one of the most painful paradoxes of Christian history: a faith founded on reconciliation that became, for centuries, a source of division with the very people from whom it came.Drawing from the prophets, the Gospels, and the writings of Paul, Steinle argues that the fracture between Church and synagogue did not arise from Scripture itself, but from the way Scripture was later interpreted through history. The biblical story does not describe the replacement of Israel, but the healing of a divided people. Gentiles are not invited into a new story that erases Israel; they are brought into Israel's covenant promises through Israel's Messiah.Central to this study is Paul's "mystery" of Gentile inclusion: that the nations become fellow heirs of promises first given to Israel. By recovering the prophetic framework of the two houses of Israel, the Davidic covenant, and the New Covenant's original recipients, this book shows how Jewish preservation, Israel's scattering, and Gentile salvation belong to one redemptive design.Rather than defending political movements or rehearsing historical grievances, The Fellowship of Christians and Jews seeks theological clarity. It challenges replacement theology without collapsing into nationalism, and it affirms Jewish covenant identity without denying the necessity of Messiah.The fellowship Paul proclaimed is neither metaphor nor myth-it is the reunion of a household long divided.