{"id":1868,"date":"2026-10-23T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:41:47","slug":"modern-messianic-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2026\/10\/23\/modern-messianic-judaism\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Messianic Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The modern Messianic Judaism movement &#8211; with independent synagogues retaining Jewish identity and practices &#8211; emerged in the late 1960s\u20131970s amid the Jesus Movement and post-1967 Six-Day War, evolving from earlier Hebrew Christianity (19th\u2013early 20th century).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before then, most Jewish converts joined mainstream churches. Separate Hebrew Christian congregations existed but were limited and often tied to denominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainstream Messianic synagogues largely align with evangelical Protestants on core doctrines (Trinity, deity of Yeshua, salvation by faith alone, biblical authority) while emphasizing Jewish liturgy, festivals, and Israel\u2019s ongoing role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern Messianic Judaism movement &#8211; with independent synagogues retaining Jewish identity and practices &#8211; emerged in the late 1960s\u20131970s amid the Jesus Movement and post-1967 Six-Day War, evolving from earlier Hebrew Christianity (19th\u2013early 20th century). Before then, most Jewish converts joined mainstream churches. Separate Hebrew Christian congregations existed but were limited and often tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-cults","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}