Faith and Fratricide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith and Fratricide write by Rosemary Radford Ruether. This book was released on 1996-09-08. Faith and Fratricide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Nazi holocaust took the lives of a third of the Jewish people of the world, the Christian Church has been engaged in a self-examination of its own historical role in the creation of anti-semitism. In this major contribution to that search, theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether explores the roots of anti-semitism from new perspectives.
Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism
Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism write by Anders Gerdmar. This book was released on 2009. Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the link between German biblical interpretation and anti-Semitism, this book is a fresh, comprehensive study of leading German exegetes, concluding that although Nazism brought anti-Semitic exegesis to a head, age-old thought structures provided powerful legitimation for oppression.
The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism write by Rosemary Radford Ruether. This book was released on 1975. The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Satanizing of the Jews
The Satanizing of the Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Satanizing of the Jews write by Joel Carmichael. This book was released on 1992. The Satanizing of the Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The literature about anti-Semitism is vast. However, much of what has been written about it takes the existence of this phenomenon for granted, giving us a history of anti-Semitism without explaining what it really is. Carmichael's treatise is different. It is not primarily a history of atrocities--it goes to the roots, thus clearing the confusion about the distinction between mystical anti-Semitism and other forms of racism. Mystical anti-Semitism is a singular idea which culminated in the Holocaust and is still alive today. Carmichael contends that it has nothing to do with a personal hatred of the Jews. He argues that the view of anti-Semitism as being directed against real-life Jews has in fact helped objectify the irrational hatred that is at its core. Anti-Semitism received its mystical element when the Church Fathers transformed historical theory into theology. St. Paul believed in the imminence of the Kingdom of God which would be the end of history and reverse the injustice done to the Jews. To him, God's reentering history was delayed only until the God-forces in this world had finally defeated the Devil-forces. Yet the world did not end, and in the wake of Rome's crushing victory over Judea in the Roman-Jewish War, the idea of the Kingdom of God was postponed indefinitely. Instead, the Universal Church took over God's place in the world, and the Devil's role was assigned to those who rejected Jesus and have since been blamed for his death: the Jews. The rise of Christianity established anti-Semitism politically; it finally gained a broad, popular basis during the Crusades, eventually leading to international prosecutions. Ghettoes were established as a consequence of theReformation. Carmichael describes the waning of theology's influence during the 18th century, which only caused the concepts of "Jew" and "Jewish" to become abstract and ultimately being equated with Pure Evil; the development of the concept of race in the 19th century, which turned anti-Semitism from a theological notion into a biological one, as exemplified most radically and horribly by Hitler; and Communism's contribution to the perseverance of anti-Semitism. In an epilogue Carmichael distinguishes mystical anti-Semitism from the Arab opposition to the State of Israel, and examines what the future has in store for the Jews.
Luther's Jews
Luther's Jews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luther's Jews write by Thomas Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-12-22. Luther's Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world that was to emerge from the Reformation process, both in Germany and the wider world. In all senses of the term, this religious pioneer was a huge figure in European history. Yet there is also the very uncomfortable but at the same time undeniable fact that he was an anti-semite. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Reformation, this is the vexed and sometimes shocking story of Martin Luther's increasingly vitriolic attitude towards the Jews over the course of his lifetime, set against the backdrop of a world in religious turmoil. A final chapter then reflects on the extent to which the legacy of Luther's anti-semitism was to taint the Lutheran church over the following centuries. Scheduled for publication on the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation's birth, in light of the subsequent course of German history it is a tale both sobering and ominous in equal measure.
