dc.contributor.author |
Willits, Joel
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-11-10T08:13:25Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-11-10T08:13:25Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-08-19 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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dc.description.department |
New Testament Studies |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2016 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
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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. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0259-9422 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2072-8050 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4102/hts.v72i4.3331 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57877 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
OpenJournals Publishing |
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dc.rights |
© 2016. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS. This work
is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
New Testament |
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dc.subject |
Post-supersessionistic reading |
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dc.subject |
Supersessionism |
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dc.subject |
Jewish ethnic identity |
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dc.subject |
Church |
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dc.subject |
Messiah |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-04 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-04: Quality education |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-10 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-10: Reduced inequalities |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-16 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
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dc.title |
Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water : Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm |
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dc.type |
Article |
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