RT Article
T1 ‘The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’: Markus Barth's awkward hostility to critics of his theology of reconciliation
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 77
IS 2
SP 126
OP 137
A1 Lindsay, Mark R. 1971-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1885285647
AB Markus Barth (1915-1994) is best-known for his pioneering work in Jewish-Christian dialogue, and his Anchor Bible commentaries. Convinced that Ephesians 2:14-16 is the core of Paul's gospel, Barth concluded that the ‘one new man’ in Christ not only necessitates an indissoluble solidarity between Christians and Jews, but entails that all enmities have been negated by Christ's reconciliatory work. Ironically, this conviction provoked in him an antagonism towards many of his Jewish interlocutors. Their refusal to ‘forget Auschwitz’ caused Barth to accuse them of not being sufficiently conciliatory, and in turn led him, with sadly supersessionistic logic, to eschew reconciliation with them, because he did not think they took reconciliation seriously enough.
K1 Jewish-Christian dialogue
K1 Markus Barth
K1 Reconciliation
K1 Supersessionism
K1 the Holocaust
DO 10.1017/S0036930623000674