Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water : Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm

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dc.contributor.author Willits, Joel
dc.date.accessioned 2016-11-10T08:13:25Z
dc.date.available 2016-11-10T08:13:25Z
dc.date.issued 2016-08-19
dc.description A version of this article was presented at an invited lecture on Messianic Judaism for the Center for Jewish Civilisation, Georgetown University, USA on 16 April 2015. en_ZA
dc.description Prof. Dr Willitts is participating in the research project, ‘Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics’, directed by Prof. Dr Andries G. van Aarde, Post Retirement Professor, Department of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.description.abstract This article defines, explains and argues for the necessity of a post-supersessionistic hermeneutical posture towards the New Testament. The post-supersessionistic reading of the New Testament takes the Jewish nature of the apostolic documents seriously, and has as its goal the correction of the sin of supersessionism. While supersessionism theologically is repudiated in most corners of the contemporary church through official church documents, the practise of reading the New Testament continues to exhibit supersessionistic tendencies and outcomes. The consequence of this predominant reading of the New Testament is the continued exclusion of Jewish ethnic identity in the church. In light of the growing recognition of multiculturalism and contextualisation on the one hand, and the recent presence of a movement within the body of Messiah of Jewish believers in Jesus on the other, the church’s established approach to reading Scripture that leads to the elimination of ethnic identity must be repudiated alongside its post-supersessionist doctrinal statements. This article defines terms, explains consequences and argues for a renewed perspective on the New Testament as an ethnic document; such a perspective will promote the church’s cultivation of real embodied ethnic particularity rather than either a pseudo-interculturalism or the eraser full ethnicity. en_ZA
dc.description.department New Testament Studies en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2016 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.hts.org.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Willits, J., 2016, ‘Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in postsupersessionist water: Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72(4), a3331. http://dx.DOI. org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i4.3331. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/hts.v72i4.3331
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57877
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher OpenJournals Publishing en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject New Testament en_ZA
dc.subject Post-supersessionistic reading en_ZA
dc.subject Supersessionism en_ZA
dc.subject Jewish ethnic identity en_ZA
dc.subject Church
dc.subject Messiah
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dc.title Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water : Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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