‘Christian Confrontations with the Holocaust’ESSAY: CHRISTOLOGY AND THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
The article addresses the usually bypassed ‘question of the one and only God in Judaism and the one but trinitarian God in Chistendom’, which Michael Wyschogrod has called ‘the last and most difficult question for the Jewish–Christian dialogue’. It listens to Jews who were banished or even annihilat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: 261-272 |
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| Summary: | The article addresses the usually bypassed ‘question of the one and only God in Judaism and the one but trinitarian God in Chistendom’, which Michael Wyschogrod has called ‘the last and most difficult question for the Jewish–Christian dialogue’. It listens to Jews who were banished or even annihilated based upon christologies which made Christ a Graeco-Roman, an imperialist, or a Teutonic idol, severed from his Jewish biblical–historical roots. Christians should interpret their confession to Christ as the Christian Sh'ma in response to the First Commandment, in order to avoid creating new gods alongside the One God of the Covenant and the resultant fatal support of victimization. Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands as illustration in his statement, ‘the Jews hold open the question of Christ’, hinting at the necessary service the Jews do the Christians. When christologies do not help to interpret better the First Commandment, they are dominated by contemporary Zeitgeist, establish its contemporary false gods and create their active and passive victims. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.3.261 |