A Smothering Embrace?: Hermeneutical Issues in Catholic Discourse about Jews and Judaism
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2024, Volume: 117, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-180 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Hermeneutics
/ Judaism
/ Jews
/ History 1962-2024
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish-Christian dialogue
B Anti-semitism B Roman Catholic Church B Anti-judaism B Vatican II B Jew B Interfaith Dialogue |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000366 |