The ideas contained in this challenging book have always been those of the small minority, though they have never obtained a wide hearing among the Christian public. They fall under two main themes: the substitution of a "dialogue" for the one-sided "mission to the Jews and the communion of Jews and Christians in one Messiah.

Father Lev Gillet, who for ten years lectured at the Russian Theological Institute in Paris, has published works in French, Russian and English. He has had many friendships with Jews, and was the editor of, and a contributor to, a symposium on Judaism and Christianity. In the present book, with no slightest compromise of the Christian position, he tries to show how much Christians have to learn from the Jews before they can hope to communicate their own faith that Jesus is the Christ.

After a historical retrospect of the intellectual relations between Christianity and Judaism, the author deals in a most interesting way with the present position both in Europe and England. With wide erudation he draws out the common element in the two faiths, and in so doing he challenges, and would correct, many of the common views of Rabbinism and Jewish life and teaching generally, which overlook the fact that, between the Old Testament and modern times, there lie more than nineteen centuries of Jewish thought. He shows everywhere how close is this vital connection, and how deeply spiritual is much of Jewish theology, and has entered sympathetically into the sentiments of Judaism to enable the reader to realise at least a little of what it feels to be a Jew.

A place for Israel, as Christian Israel, says Father Gillet, has not yet been found in a Church which boasts of its universalism, and he goes on to prove that the negation of Jesus' Messiahship commonly associated with Judaism is superadded to the few articles of the authentic Jewish creed but forms no part of it. There is, he claims, nothing in Jewish belief that a Jew become Christian ought to reject, while Christianity is, in relation to Judaism, a completion and a fulfilment.