Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,2 (1997) 106-112
Keywords:
Christian Zionism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1945-
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1800-2000
;
History
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Christianity's attitude toward Zionism is seen to be ambivalent in two respects. Christianity failed to recognize the role its own anti-Judaism played in encouraging modern political antisemitism, and it rejected the establishment of the Jewish state because the Church continued to view itself as the true Israel. Christian theologians, both in Herzl's time and after 1948, expected the ingathering of the Jews to lead them to Jesus. Protestants as well as Catholics found it hard to accept a Jewish state. Christians admitted guilt not for antisemitism but for ineffective missionizing among the Jews. In the 1960s Christians began acknowledging their responsibility for antisemitism and realizing the need for new attitudes toward Zionism and Israel. Still, traditional ambivalences have resulted in anti-Jewish stereotypes being transferred to the Jewish state. Expresses hope that Zionism will be accepted as the liberation of the Jews rather than as the continuation of Christian messianic history.
Note:
Appeared also in "Theodor Herzl Internationales Symposion" II (1997) and "100 Jahre Zionismus". An English version appeared in "Jewish Studies" 38 (1998).
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