Language:
English
Year of publication:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
Harvard Theological Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
117,1 (2024) 161-180
Keywords:
Catholic Church Relations
;
Judaism
;
Salvation Catholic Church
;
History of doctrines
;
Self-perception Religious aspects
;
Other (Philosophy) Religious aspects
;
Catholic Church
Abstract:
This article examines how Jews and Judaism are envisioned in the Catholic imagination, through a critical reading of contemporary Catholic discourse on Judaism. It identifies three problematic areas. The first concerns the tendency of Catholic discourse to project a specifically Christian vision of salvation history onto the Jewish people, which reflects Christian rather than Jewish self-understanding. Second, this article analyzes patterns in language and imagery in Vatican documents about Judaism, alert to troubling allusions implicit in the texts. The third area concerns a hermeneutical obstacle to deep interreligious understanding, one which may be ultimately insurmountable: namely, the challenges of understanding the religious other according to its own self-understanding. This article reaches an ambivalent conclusion, conceding that the goal of recognizing the self-understanding of another religious tradition may ultimately be impossible.
DOI:
10.1017/S0017816023000366
URL:
Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
