Torah and Dogma: A Comment
The suggestion has often been made recently that the relationship between Judaism and Christianity can be adequately described in terms of a schism. This suggestion is worthy of serious consideration. It has much to commend it. It promises new possibilities (badly needed in view of past history),...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1968]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1968, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 87-105 |
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| Summary: | The suggestion has often been made recently that the relationship between Judaism and Christianity can be adequately described in terms of a schism. This suggestion is worthy of serious consideration. It has much to commend it. It promises new possibilities (badly needed in view of past history), because schism can be healed. But its mere attractiveness and beneficial potential should not blind us to the problems involved. Because the term schism presupposes an underlying unity, its use to describe the relation between the two faiths preserves an emphasis which, in our given situation, where the dependence of the Church on the Synagogue is not sufficiently recognized, is too easily lost. And yet, without very careful definition, the term schism may be misleading. Who are to be called schismatics? Is it Christians for leaving Judaism or Jews for rejecting the Christian Messiah and his people? As will become apparent in the following pages, there are two extreme positions to be avoided. On the one hand, that which regards the relationship between Judaism and Christianity at the present time as so close that that relationship is merely schismatic, and, on the other hand, that which regards that relationship as one of unrelieved antithesis. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000027954 |