Ivan E. Mesa explores how English Particular Baptists held a unique view of the Jewish people
within God's unfolding redemption. As Dissenters themselves Baptists empathized with the
Jewish plight and connected their philo-Semitism to a larger theological vision that
anticipated the Jews' conversion and eventual return to the land of Israel. English Baptists
viewed Jews as the people of God "beloved for the fathers' sake" (Rom. 11:28). They believed
the nation of Israel would one day experience a transformative conversion aligning with God's
covenantal promises. Through figures such as Henry Jessey John Gill Andrew Fuller and
Charles Spurgeon the author demonstrates how these Baptists advocated for Jewish readmission
to England prayed for the Jews' conversion and engaged in charitable work. This Baptist
perspective was distinct and influential demonstrating a millenarian zeal that connected
religious political and cultural realms within England with implications stretching as far
as the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Mesa offers a fresh perspective on
Christian-Jewish relations moving beyond the established narratives of anti-Semitism and
toward a more comprehensive understanding of philo-Semitic eschatology.
