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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Harvard theological review
Jahr: 2024, Band: 117, Heft: 1, Seiten: 161-180 |
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Katholische Kirche
/ Interreligiöser Dialog
/ Hermeneutik
/ Judentum
/ Juden
/ Geschichte 1962-2024
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judentum CC Christentum und nichtchristliche Religionen; interreligiöse Beziehungen KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KDB Katholische Kirche |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | 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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000366 |