Jesus for Jews: the unique problem of messianic Judaism

Messianic Judaism is a movement of people who identify as Jews and self-consciously embrace - although to degrees that can differ quite widely - Jewish culture and religious tradition, while at the same time maintaining a belief in the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the authority of the New Tes...

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1. VerfasserIn: Shapiro, Faydra 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Creighton University 2012
In: The journal of religion & society
Jahr: 2012, Band: 14
weitere Schlagwörter:B Jews; Identity
B Jewish Theology
B Messianic Judaism
B Apostasy; Judaism
B Heresies and heretics (Judaism)
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Zusammenfassung:Messianic Judaism is a movement of people who identify as Jews and self-consciously embrace - although to degrees that can differ quite widely - Jewish culture and religious tradition, while at the same time maintaining a belief in the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the authority of the New Testament. Despite a wide range of contemporary response to the question of what constitutes Jewishness, all four major denominations of Judaism agree that Messianic Jews are not acceptably Jewish, and that Jewishness is utterly incompatible with belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ. This research uses the unambiguous Jewish rejection of contemporary Messianic Judaism as a platform for thinking about the construction of heresy and its study. By examining mainstream Jewish responses to Jewish believers in Jesus, both in Israel and in North America, we see that this "heresy" is not primarily an issue of belief, but rather a form of discipline that speaks from and to particular social locations, historical relationships and distribution of power.
ISSN:1522-5658
Enthält:Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10504/64304