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Article: ELIEZER BERKOVITS'S POST-HOLOCAUST THEOLOGY: A DIALECTIC BETWEEN POLEMICS AND RECEPTION.(Christianity and Judaism)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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In response to the Holocaust, Eliezer Berkovits attempted to reconstruct a Jewish identity reflecting divine power through political powerlessness, by recasting Christianity in a this worldly "power history" versus a powerless Israel occupying a metaphysical "faith history." He accomplished this by drawing upon Christian motifs of suffering and by Inverting antisemitic myths regarding Jewish power. Ironically, his reconfiguration of Judaism and Christianity appears to be a clear inversion of the Augustinian categories of the "City of God" and "City of Man." His work demonstrates a dialectic between anti-Christian polemic and the reception of Christian ...
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... ... year. The Midrash Sifrei has God saying: "You have increased ... community - taught Torah by God and Moses, in the sublime ... the late halakhic philosopher Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992) put it ... Numbers 21:4). Nonetheless, God uses the same language as before ...
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