Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Christianity in Jewish Terms
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2000) 36-48
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Holocaust (Christian theology)
Abstract:
Examines Christian efforts to reshape the Church's relationship to the Jews after the Holocaust through repudiation of the idea of supersessionism. Argues that supersessionism provided a response to the ambiguity of the Church's attitudes regarding the place and function of the Jews in the middle stage of the Christian story. Traces the development of the supersessionist idea and Christian critique of it after the Holocaust, and notes the importance of the Nostra Aetate declaration (1965). Despite its shortcomings, this document initiated a revolutionary shift in Christian understanding of the role of the Jewish people and Judaism. Since 1965, Christian scholars have worked to relocate the New Testament and the beginning of the Christian story within a Jewish context, but they have not done enough to confront the middle of the story (the past millennium), which is rife with anti-Jewish prejudice. The Christian end-of-days expectation that everyone, including the Jews, will become one in Christ must also give way to a view that respects both conventional partnership and particularism.
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