Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
41, 3-4 (2004) 313-340
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 1948-
Abstract:
Christian liberation theologians, preeminent among them the Palestinian Naim Ateek, make use of ideas from liberation theology to criticize and even demonize Israel in regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This approach perpetuates anti-Jewish Christian stereotypes and images at a time when many Churches have been rejecting them. Stresses that the use of traditional Christian arguments, often echoing the "adversus Judaeos" literature, turns contemporary political disagreements into religious polemics. Uses Rosemary Ruether's examination of classical Christian antisemitism in her book "Faith and Fratricide" to show how liberation theologians, including Ruether herself, subsequently echoed this antisemitism in pro-Palestinian anti-Zionist writings.
Note:
On use of antisemitic Christian claims made against the Jews in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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