The Political Theology of Binationalism: Judah Leib Magnes and Martin Buber

Judah Leib Magnes and Martin Buber collaborated to promote the binational cause in Palestine, driven by their religious worldviews. Buber was committed to a prophetic-moral solution to the conflict in Palestine, which coincided with his understanding of Zionism as the political realization of the co...

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Main Author: Barak-Gorodetsky, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2022
In: Journal of ecumenical studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-39
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
TK Recent history
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Summary:Judah Leib Magnes and Martin Buber collaborated to promote the binational cause in Palestine, driven by their religious worldviews. Buber was committed to a prophetic-moral solution to the conflict in Palestine, which coincided with his understanding of Zionism as the political realization of the covenant among God, the land, and the people. He perceived the “Arab Question” as the moral acid test of Zionism, yet there was an apparent lack of conviction in his relation to the binational cause. For Magnes, the binational program was a political-theological platform. It was the outcome of an American belief in the power of political structures and covenants to enforce political equality and the centrality of Reform ethical monotheism in his religious worldview.
ISSN:2162-3937
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of ecumenical studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ecu.2022.0003