Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,2 (1995) 152-166
Schlagwort(e):
Christianity and antisemitism
Kurzfassung:
Based on a lecture delivered in Basel, October 1995. Argues that although anti-Judaism existed in pagan antiquity, it became a universal factor in Western culture only with the triumph of Christianity. It differs from other forms of xenophobia in its unconditional, metaphysical quality. In antiquity, hostility to Jews had situational causes or political objectives. The same was true in the early Jewish-Christian communities in their competition with mainstream Judaism. But soon the survival of the Jews and their denial of the Christian message of redemption became a problem for Christian identity, especially disturbing and dangerous because the conflict of doctrines takes place in the context of a common religious-ethical tradition.
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