Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? These were the words of Adolf Hitler as he motivated his plans for a genocide on a far larger scale, that on the Jews: Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders [...]
As I mentioned in my latest post, some perspectives fundamental in the Bible are almost always missing in ‘systematic theologies’. Like in chemistry it makes a tremendous difference if we add a certain substance or not, or if we miss a catalyst. I do believe Israelology is a key issue in Christian theology, which is [...]
One of the more important books I have ever read is R. Kendall Soulen. The God of Israel and Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996. In this book he discusses the place of Israel in Christian theology. When I made a survey over so-called Systematic Theologies (Protestant and Catholic), I recognised that that place almost [...]
To explore the roots of theological anti-Semitism is an important project, far from finished. In a comment to an earlier blogpost, Kevin Edgecomb has made some important comments not so much to my own writing, as to David Robles’ comment (see Anti-Semitism in Eastern and Western theology). I have no special insights into the question [...]
A quite common misunderstanding among some Protestant Christians is that first there was a New Testament, then, after a few hundred years doctrine was construed to meet resistance against the truth. However, the opposite seems to be the case. Early Christianity read the Jewish Bible as its own, and I am fascinated by Birger Gerhardsson’s [...]