Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Spectator
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (1991-1992) 34-38
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
Abstract:
States that the dialogue has foundered because each side finds it difficult to address the most deeply-held convictions of the other - Christianity's conception of Jesus Christ as God Incarnate and Judaism's conception of "Israel, " God's people. Contends that dialogue must be based on understanding the other religion within one's own terms, seeking that with which one can identify in the religious experience of the other. Attempts to explain to Christians, in Judaic terms, what "Israel" stands for. Just as, for Christians, Christ is seen as the antidote to Adam, the life of Israel in the Land of Israel is Judaism's counterpoint to Adam's life in the Garden of Eden. For Christians, Christ stands for the suffering servant of Isaiah, whereas for Jews that passage (Is. 54) is relating to the Holocaust. The fusion of the ethnic, the religious, the cultural, and the political in Israel's identity confuses Christians. When Jewish participants in dialogue raise the question of Christian hostility to the State of Israel and Zionism, Christians find difficult the intrusion of a political question into a religious dialogue. The advent of the State of Israel called into question theological convictions of many centuries. Concludes that Christians can engage in dialogue with Judaism as it is, and not with a fabrication of Christianity.
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