Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Hispania Sacra; revista de historia eclesiástica de España
Angaben zur Quelle:
54 [110] (2002) 515-552
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
During the Middle Ages, Christian intellectuals used the concept of heresy (i.e. a doctrinal mistake sustained pertinaciously) not only in order to define a doctrinal deviation inside Christian faith, but also to define Judaism and the obstinacy of the Jews in preserving their religion. The Jews were heretics insofar as they did not share the Church's doctrinal interpretation of the Old Testament, and did not recognize the New Testament as the fulfillment of the divine promises contained in the old text. The Talmud was seen as the literary expression of those deviations and as the principal obstacle for the conversion of the Jews. The regard of Judaism as heresy replaced, in practice, the idea of Judaism as "testes veritas" and became a justification for the segregationist policy of the Church, especially in Spain.
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