Language:
French
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Sens; Juifs et Chrétiens dans le monde aujourd'hui
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,1-2 (2004) 20-27
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
;
Prayer Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Relates the development of the "Prayer for the Jews", part of the official Roman Catholic liturgy on Good Friday, showing how antisemitic elements were inserted and then removed over a period of 1,500 years. The word "perfidia", used to describe the Jews in the ancient liturgy, designated non-Christians in the 4th century and carried no negative connotation, but certain antisemitic characteristics entered the prayer in the 7th century. Through a series of papal revisions between 1959-70, all words referring to Jewish perfidy and blindness were eliminated from the liturgy. In its current form, the "Prayer for the Jews" emphasizes brotherhood between Christians and Jews, and acknowledges Jewish primacy as the people of the covenant. It no longer states that Jews have to believe in Christ in order to be redeemed.
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