Language:
English
Year of publication:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
23,1 (2024) 1-17
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian
;
Christian Zionism
;
Race discrimination
;
Slavery Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Religious aspects
;
Christianity
Abstract:
The apologetics of pro-slavery, pro-segregation Christians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were identical to the methods of biblical interpretation used by Dispensationalist Christian Zionists today. The ideology's specific rules of ‘literal interpretation’ and ‘antecedent theology’ led both groups to similar conclusions about slavery and racial segregation, on the one hand, and Jewish privilege and Palestinian displacement, on the other. Abolitionist efforts to promote a Christ–like hermeneutic rooted in Christian morality points the way forward to correcting modern theologies, such as Dispensationalist Christian Zionism, that continue to sanction human oppression.
DOI:
10.3366/hlps.2024.0324
URL:
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