The Attitude of the Catholic Church toward the Jews: An Outline of a Turbulent History
The practice of imprisoning Jews in ghettos and marking them out with special signs (as was introduced by Pius vi in the Papal States, inter alia, in 1775) is associated more with the Nazism of the Third Reich than with the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the Church maintained its policy of per...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Numen
Year: 2017, Volume: 64, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 209-228 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church, Sancta Sedes
/ Anti-judaism
/ Vatican Council 2. (1962-1965 : Vatikanstadt)
/ History 1751-2004
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCB Papacy KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Anti-semitism
anti-Judaism
Roman Catholic Church
Jews
the Papal States
the Vatican
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| Summary: | The practice of imprisoning Jews in ghettos and marking them out with special signs (as was introduced by Pius vi in the Papal States, inter alia, in 1775) is associated more with the Nazism of the Third Reich than with the Roman Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the Church maintained its policy of perfidis Judaeis until the beginning of the 1960s, when it was stopped by Vatican ii, probably because of the pressure of social and political factors. This topic is, however, difficult to explain, often very controversial, and subject to many different interpretations. Here we show that anti-Semitic ideas were present in the Church before Vatican ii, and that they have a religious, theological, and philosophical background. We discuss those interpretations which, in an ideological sense, connect anti-Semitism in the Church with the genocidal anti-Semitism of the Third Reich. This article underlines the revolutionary change in the Church’s attitude toward Jews in Vatican ii, a change caused primarily by the Holocaust. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341460 |