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MARC A. KRELL Schoeps vs. Rosenzweig: Transcending Religious Borders In the early days of the Third Reich until he was forced to flee Germany in 1938, the Jewish thinker Hans Joachim Schoeps attempted to combat what he considered to be a political and religious crisis that affected all Germans. He claimed that this emergency grew out of a,,universal faithless situation."I In response to this existential crisis, Schoeps laid the foundations for a systematic Jewish theology that repositioned the Jew in relation to God and the rest of German Christian culture.2 He demonstrated this theological reconfiguration of Jewish and Christi- an boundaries in his "Critical-Protestant" theology of Jewish identity that reexamined rabbinic tradition by raising what he considered to be Prote- stant questions regarding the sacred content of the Oral Torah and the rituals associated with it. Schoeps was concerned that Jews had lost their connection to "the divine word... in its absolute concreteness."3 This blurring of theological boundaries between Judaism and Christianity is further illustrated in Schoeps' dialogical portrayal of the Jewish-Christian relationship. Because of his construction of an existential Jewish theology with the aid of Christian categories, Schoeps' work can also be compared to that of the
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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