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White Jesus and Antisemitism: Toward an Antiracist and Decolonial Christology.
- Source :
- Ecumenical Review; Dec2020, Vol. 72 Issue 5, p777-796, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This article argues that traditional Christology is intimately bound up with a triumphalist agenda that denies Jesus' Jewishness and is structurally antisemitic. Taking an antiracist stance, the article argues that systemic rethinking of Christianity's theological resources is needed, which must be antiāantisemitic and antiracist. This involves reconfiguring how we take on board Jesus' Jewishness in a postāHolocaust context and recognizing Jesus as a Jewish prophet. From this, it is tentatively suggested that rethinking the role of the Messiah involves understanding a Levinasian Messiah who does not come, but rather calls upon us to act in a Messianic role before the Other as an ethical imperative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANTISEMITISM
ANTI-Jewish boycotts
CHRISTOLOGY
DOCTRINAL theology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00130796
- Volume :
- 72
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ecumenical Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149007123
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/erev.12564