In this thought-provoking book, Clark M. Williamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology of anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scrip- tures, the church, and God. Williamson bases his study on a wide range of confessional liter- ature from Roman Catholic to Protestant doc- trines. He demonstrates that both the people of Israel and the church stand in relation to God only by the grace of God and suggests a radi- cal, constructive alternative to the "teaching of contempt."