DJPoopypants
19 Jan 2006, 03:23 PM
I found this interesting, ymmv.
http://www.slate.com/id/2134501/
But even as fundamentalists like Robertson continue to talk about Jews in purely instrumental terms, other evangelical Protestants and some Catholics are moving away from the old, tactless supersessionism. They have decided that it's rather indelicate to continue talking about Jews—and with Jews—as if they exist only to further the Christian plotline.
But Neuhaus does not mean that Christians should give up on converting Jews. Evangelicals are evangelicals, after all, not Unitarians. Rather, Neuhaus writes, "[W]e can and must say that we reject proselytizing, which is best defined as evangelizing in a way that demeans the other." This can seem a pretty flimsy distinction—convert the Jews, but be respectful about it?
In this camp with Neuhaus and Wilson are Notre Dame's George Marsden and Nathan Hatch and Yale's Harry Stout. But how widespread is this rethinking of supersessionism? Probably not very. In evangelicalism, the intelligentsia have no efficient way to influence the laity....
I do have a question for jewish readers though. Many people I know had a hatred for Jews4Jesus that was 2nd only to their hatred of those trying to destroy Israel.
Why hate on jews4jesus, but not all other christian evangelicals? Cuz some are more subtle about it? Was it their use of the word jews? Other evangelicals are somewhat OK?
http://www.slate.com/id/2134501/
But even as fundamentalists like Robertson continue to talk about Jews in purely instrumental terms, other evangelical Protestants and some Catholics are moving away from the old, tactless supersessionism. They have decided that it's rather indelicate to continue talking about Jews—and with Jews—as if they exist only to further the Christian plotline.
But Neuhaus does not mean that Christians should give up on converting Jews. Evangelicals are evangelicals, after all, not Unitarians. Rather, Neuhaus writes, "[W]e can and must say that we reject proselytizing, which is best defined as evangelizing in a way that demeans the other." This can seem a pretty flimsy distinction—convert the Jews, but be respectful about it?
In this camp with Neuhaus and Wilson are Notre Dame's George Marsden and Nathan Hatch and Yale's Harry Stout. But how widespread is this rethinking of supersessionism? Probably not very. In evangelicalism, the intelligentsia have no efficient way to influence the laity....
I do have a question for jewish readers though. Many people I know had a hatred for Jews4Jesus that was 2nd only to their hatred of those trying to destroy Israel.
Why hate on jews4jesus, but not all other christian evangelicals? Cuz some are more subtle about it? Was it their use of the word jews? Other evangelicals are somewhat OK?