A Response by Douglas K. Harink

I believe Mark Kinzer’s Postmissionary Messianic Judaism makes a timely, groundbreaking and crucial theological contribution in several respects: 1. It reflects and contributes to the theological maturing of Messianic Judaism; 2. It challenges Christian theology to ask more seriously what it will make of the Jewish people and practice, in the first place as found in the messianic ekklesia, but then also as found in its non-messianic forms; 3. It challenges non-messianic Jewish theology to account for the fact that Messianic Jews are not only Jewish by birth, but are also committed to the fai