The Protestant Reformers and the Jews: Excavating Contexts, Unearthing Logic
This article highlights the important initial tasks of excavating the pertinent contexts of the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers and discerning what is at stake for them (i.e., unearthing logic) in order to analyze their views of and teachings about Jews and Judaism. Pertinent contexts inclu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-13 |
| Further subjects: | B
Context
B Calvin B Jews B Anti-semitism B Scripture B Christian Hebraism B Judaism B Luther B Biblical Interpretation B Reformers B Jewish-Christian relations B Perspicuity |
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| Summary: | This article highlights the important initial tasks of excavating the pertinent contexts of the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers and discerning what is at stake for them (i.e., unearthing logic) in order to analyze their views of and teachings about Jews and Judaism. Pertinent contexts include the immediate contexts to which Luther and Calvin responded (e.g., Jewish blasphemy and/or Christian Hebraism), as well as attending to the significant theological frameworks in which they each operated. Equally important is activity of sifting through the discrepancies in the secondary literature's depictions of Luther and Calvin's place in the history of Christian-Jewish relations. The article highlights biblical interpretationparticularly the defense of Scripture's perspicuityas the distinctive locus of the reformers' angst concerning Jews and Judaism. In conclusion, the author offers some lessons from church history for discerning what Christian faithfulness might look like in response to this troubling history. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel8040072 |