What Think You of Christ?: Jesus at Issue between Christians and Jews
After Auschwitz, without changing their confession of Jesus Christ, Christians have to renew their christology. Jesus, who rules us today, is a Jew. His own people have fetched him home. He is seen in various ways by them. We can no longer understand him according to the measure of our non-Jewish tr...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2001
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Theology today
Year: 2001, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-201 |
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Summary: | After Auschwitz, without changing their confession of Jesus Christ, Christians have to renew their christology. Jesus, who rules us today, is a Jew. His own people have fetched him home. He is seen in various ways by them. We can no longer understand him according to the measure of our non-Jewish tradition, which strives for a unified conception of Jesus, in thrall to a western rationality that would gain control of everything. We have to confess Jesus as Messiah without condemning others, so that Jesus may be recognizable to Jews as Messiah. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057360105800206 |