Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Wort und Dienst
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (1989) 105-120
Keywords:
Paul, Relations with Jews
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1933-1945
Abstract:
A lecture held at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel, January 1989. Discusses different approaches of German theologians (chiefly in the Nazi period) to Paul's statements on Judaism. Walter Grundmann espoused the traditional view of the Church as successor to rejected Israel; Judaism and the Jew become abstract categories. Compares his views to those of Bultmann, who interpreted attacks on Jews in the Gospel of John as referring to universal human characteristics, and of Sartre, who explained the Jew as a construction of the antisemite. Thus, all three condemn the Jew to non-existence, although the latter two do so in order to defend him. Another Nazi theologian, Georg Bertram, condemned Paul as a Jew who had no appreciation of Greek values, contending that precisely his wish to assimilate, to be "a Greek to the Greeks", is typically Jewish. He asserted that all of Paul's theology is derived from Judaism. Notes that postwar pro-Jewish theology takes the same view of Paul, but evaluates it positively.
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