Surprised by Christ: My Journey from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity

Raised in Queens, New York, by formerly Orthodox Jewish parents whose faith had been undermined by the Holocaust, Arnold Bernstein went on his own personal quest for the God he instinctively felt was there. Surprised by Christ combines an engrossing memoir of one man's life in historic times and situations – from the Six-Day War to the Civil Rights Movement to the Jesus Movement in Berkeley – with a deeply felt examination of the distinctives of Orthodox theology that make the Orthodox Church the true home not only for Christian Jews, but for all who seek to know God as fully as He may be known.