Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,1 (1999) 54-67
Keywords:
Stein, Edith,
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
An exchange of letters by the two authors in November 1998, following the beatification of Edith Stein in October. Brocke questions the Pope's characterization of Stein as "eminent daughter of Israel and faithful daughter of the Church, " and as a martyr both for her people and her faith. She was no longer a Jew according to Jewish understanding; and she died not as a martyr for a cause, but, like all the other "non-Aryans, " because of Nazi racial policy. Contends that although the Pope sincerely strives for reconciliation with the Jews, his emphasis on the Jewish background of this Catholic saint smacks of triumphalism. Henrix admits that the Pope's wording was unfortunate, but points out that in Stein, Christians are meant to remember all the victims of the Holocaust. The triumph is not of the Church over the Synagogue but of the victims over the perpetrators.
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