Excerpt from The Synagogue and the Church: Being a Contribution to the Apologetics of Judaism
The fortunes and achievements of the Jewish people were for a period of over a thousand years, and well into modern times, considered in Europe as the pivot of Universal History. A larger view of historiography has brought about a more proportionate appreciation of the various elements which go to the making of civilization, but the Jews still remain the people of religion par excellence. Now, we may regard Religion as exercising a good or evil influence, but we must recognize its importance as a determining factor in human life, and, while we may condemn or applaud, we cannot ignore, the decisive part played by the Jews in the religious evolution of mankind.
It is the object of this book to bring out the extent of the contribution which the Jews have made to religious thought, and to point to the imperishable import of the truths embodied in Judaism. In order, however, to demonstrate the claim of Judaism to the attention of the world, it is above all necessary to controvert the historic attitude and teachings of the Christian faith. The Church, declaring the existence of the Synagogue as unjustifiable, regards itself as having entered into the heritage of Israel, but the last chapter in the history of Judaism has yet to be written.
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