Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Communio Viatorum; a Theological Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
39, 2-3 (1997) 101-119
Keywords:
Luther, Martin,
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
History
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Based on a lecture held at Prague University, April 1997. Luther's commentary on Psalms 1 identifies the "righteous" with the Christian. Without faith in Christ there is no "delight in the Law" but only obedience from fear; thus the unbelieving Jews are forever excluded from salvation. Luther also identifies "the ungodly", who are "like the chaff which the wind bloweth away", with the Jews, who are constantly driven from place to place by the just wrath of their neighbors. In the wake of Luther, 19th-20th-century German Protestant theologians read into the psalm either the opposition between love and fear, or praise of barren Jewish scholasticism. In either case, Judaism is represented as inferior. Notes that such interpretations are not found in Catholic commentaries, and attributes them to the centrality of the justification dogma in Protestantism.
Note:
From the time of Luther through the 20th century.
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