Walls Are Crumbling: Seven Jewish Philosophers Discover Christ

Walls Are Crumbling is, in the words of its author, “a book of hope.” The seven philosophers whose lives and works are brought to light in these pages speak a message of affirmation, a resounding “yes” to the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. The witness of Henri Bergson, the “Philosopher of Experience”; Edmund Husserl, the “Acolyte of Truth”; Adolf Reinach, the “Seeker of the Absolute”; Max Scheler, the “Critic of Modern Man”; Paul Landsberg, the “Defender of Hope”; Max Picard, the “Poet of the Human Face”; and Edith Stein, the “Witness of Love,” makes emphatically evident that “the wall which has stood so long and seemed unbreakable, the wall of separation from Christ,” is crumbling at last.With nuance, clarity, and a fervent love for God’s people, Oesterreicher charts the course of twentieth-century thought on personhood, society, and God, and reveals the strong influence of Judaism and Christianity on the exceptional stances of these seven philosophers toward (and against) the modern world. Read more