MIRACLES FOR SKEPTICS: ENCOUNTERING THE PARANORMAL MINISTRY OF JESUS. By Frank G.Honeycutt. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024. Pp. ix + 217. $19.35.

to come to the Father, for every Jew is already with the Father and is there because of Jesus."Griffiths' concern to take the history of Christian violence against Jews with all penitential seriousness, his reclamation of positive portrayals of Jews in what he calls "the archive" (i.e., scripture), and his insistence that Jews need to be distinguished from unbaptized gentiles in the Church's theology and practice should be deeply appreciated.But questions remain whether Griffiths goes too far in his proposals, leading to inconcinnities within his grammar and a sketch that is ultimately incomplete.Though he maintains that non-Jewish Christians have "no need to become Jews," his grammar suggests that there is less to lose-non-Jewish Christians who become Jews remain cleaved to Jesus by virtue of their baptism-than there is to gain-greater holiness, greater intimacy with God.Moreover, while Griffiths speaks of Jewish Christians (Jews who become baptized in the Church) and Christian Jews (baptized Christians who are received liturgically into the Synagogue), it is a surprising feature of this grammar that it provides no in-depth discussion of messianic Jews who consciously present themselves as both Christ-followers and Jews simultaneously, a fact which complicates Griffiths' grammar and arguments at several points.Some readers will have wished Griffiths had wrestled with St. Paul's grammar about Israel in Romans rather than latching on to and presenting what amounts to only one side of St. Paul's dialectic.Indeed, Griffiths' appeal to the Synagogue's fleshly propinquity to God arguably needs, at the very least, to grapple with St. Paul's reasoning in Philippians 3:2-11 (and elsewhere) before becoming viable.The Messiah's pneuma, so important for the earliest Israelite Messiah followers' understanding of knowledge of, relationship with, and reconciliation to God, is almost entirely eclipsed in Griffiths' sketch.Still, Griffiths presents a strong theological case that churches should prioritize the beloved status of Israel kata sarka, and anyone interested in this fraught theological question should be encouraged to attend patiently to this intellectually gripping and challenging book.