By Anders Gerdmar
As Adolf Hitler strategised his solution to energy, he knew that it used to be essential to achieve the help of theology and the Church. This examine starts 200 years prior, even if, taking a look at roots of theological anti-Semitism and the way Jews and Judaism have been developed, definitely and negatively, within the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the 2 major streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented traditions, it examines major exegetes from the 1750s to the Fifties and explores how theology legitimises or delegitimises oppression of Jews, partially via still-prevailing paradigms. this can be the 1st entire research of its style, and the results of the research of the interaction among biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is an interesting and infrequently scary portrait of theology as a servant of energy.
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Studien zu Leben und Werk des Hallenser Aufklärungsthelogoen, ed. Hans Joachim Kertscher and Fabienne Molin, vol. 2, Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996), passim. 19 With the deistic ideas followed thoughts on Christianity and the Jews, and so there is a direct link between English deistic depictions of the Jews and those found among the pioneers of modern New Testament exegesis. The following discussion of German Protestant views on the Jews thus begins with an English prelude.
How, then, are the Jews and Judaism described in the deliberations of Enlightenment theology and exegesis? Did the Enlightenment, with its emancipatory ambitions, deliver the final blow to theological anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, as one might expect? Against such an idealised view, I suggest that the picture of the Jews and Judaism found in the exegesis of this research tradition is coloured by classic anti-Jewish stereotypes, and that Jews and Judaism are constructed as the main antipode to Christianity, despite the tradition’s lip service to emancipation.
O. Dyson, “Theological legacies of the Enlightenment: England and Germany”, in England and Germany: studies in theological diplomacy, ed. S. W. Sykes, Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1982). 21 Dyson, “Theological Legacies of the Enlightenment”, 54, emphasis mine. 1 The main work of this advocate of deism, The Moral Philosopher (1738–1740), takes the form of a dialogue between a deist (Philalethes) and a Christian Jew (Theophanes) on this new faith.