Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Medieval Encounters; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (1998) 78-92
Keywords:
Augustine,
;
Christianity Historiography
Abstract:
Augustine's idea that the Jews serve as witness for the validity of Christianity was seen by medieval churchmen as an injunction against the persecution of Jews. His doctrine of Jewish witness developed during the last twenty years of his life as a by-product of his biblical hermeneutics and philosophy of history, not from concern for the Jews. Examines works on the doctrine by Bernhard Blumenkranz, who saw Augustine's anti-Judaism as restrained and even beneficent; Marcel Dubois, who shows that Augustine saw the Jew as a determined category which informs Christian religious experience (in which the Christians are invited to judge themselves); and Paula Fredriksen, who linked the doctrine to developments in Augustine's life and theology. The doctrine affected policy toward Jews in the early Middle Ages; however, churchmen of the later Middle Ages claimed that the Jews had forsaken their role as witness by allowing for deviations in their religion.
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