Synagogue and the Church?

"THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WENT OUT FROM THE RESURRECTION SIDE AS THE CHURCH OF THE LAMB WHO HAD BEEN SLAIN BUT IS FOREVER TRIUMPHANTLY ALIVE; BUT THE JEWISH CHURCH WENT OUT FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE CROSS INTO HISTORY AS THE CHURCH OF THE SCAPEGOAT, CAST OUT AND SCATTERED OVER THE EARTH UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE CRUCIFIED JESUS"  -  Thomas F. Torrance

If we are honest, there are many contemporary theologians that really do not help the church but there are a few who do shine like stars in the night.  By contemporary, I mean more recently dead in the last century.  Giants like Karl Barth, John H. Yoder, Lesslie Newbigin, and Thomas Torrance.  Torrance is one of those brilliant church historians and theologians that has flown under the rader for many.  Here is a quote from his brilliant work, "The Mediation of Christ":

"How can we Christians claim to proclaim atoning reconciliation through the cross of Christ when we contradict it by refusing to be reconciled with one another . . . and bear witness to Jews about Jesus Christ as the mediator of reconciliation with God? . . . Only when the deepest schism of all is healed in the body of the one people of God . . . it will take root in all the peoples and nations of mankind . . . God has been making it clear to us in our day, as perhaps never before since the first century, that Israel retains in the purpose of God's grace an essential role in the mediation of reconciliation, and that the Christian church will not be able to fulfill its own mission in proclaiming that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, except in so far as it is incorporated with Israel in the one mission of God's love for all his creatures.  That is what the fullness of the mediation of reconciliation in Jesus Christ means" (p.46).