Christianity as the Moral Order of Integration: The Gift of the Jews to the World

This book tells the story of an ancient journey that began before the Bible originated, but it is a story that the Bible has preserved. It is the  journey that Abram and Sarai initiated in response to God's summons, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I shall show you."  No immediate destination is named, and they have no country, no kingdom and, therefore, no ethnic identity, but God has warranted to them endless blessings through a unified mutuality of trust. God will journey with them and in time will not only make them a great nation, but through them "all the families of the earth will be blessed." Their journey continues in the land of Canaan, the land that they will eventually inherit and, finally in their very old age, after being renamed Abraham and Sarah, they are drawn into an everlasting covenant with God. They commit themselves to their origin as beings of presence endowed with power and possibility, being created in the image and likeness of God.  They are undertaking a journey they will never complete, a journey that will make them migrants for the rest of their lives, but they will be graced with the security of God's abiding presence.

Their entire journey is the substance of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Jewish documents of the New Testament, and this book, therefore, is designed to accompany their journey through the generations of their descendants: Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Israel's liberation from Egyptian enslavement, the Davidic kings of Judah, the four Isaianic prophets of the Book of Isaiah, Book One of First Enoch, the Apocalypse of Daniel, the Testament of Naphtali, John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth and his resurrection from the dead, and finally Paul of Tarsus who ended the journey by actualizing the eternal covenant that was constituted at their renaming as Abraham and Sarah, and establishing "the New Israel of God" grounded in the integration of universality and ethnicity."