FATHER, FORGIVE US
A Christian response to the Church's heritage of Jewish persecution
By Fred Wright. Monarch Books in conjunction with Olive Press. 287 pages.
ISBN 1 85424 605 4
There was a time when I misguidedly believed that no 'true Christian' could be an anti-semite. However, many of the Church Fathers preached and wrote against the Jewish people in the most vitriolic of terms, and Martin Luther urged measures against the Jews that inspired the attempted genocide of European Jewry four centuries later.
Fred Wright's book is in many ways timely. He traces the history of anti-semitism from biblical times, through the Church Fathers, the Middle Ages and the Reformation to the German Church in the mid-20th century.
