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• W4379779616 abstract "Jews and Gentiles in the Divine Economy P. Mark Achtemeier In the aftermath of the Scandal of Particularity dialogue, I am convinced that Jewish‐Christian relations can be fostered and enhanced by those of us on the Christian side learning to grasp more firmly and in the right way some of the core insights of our Christianity. Christianity and Judaism both embrace historical particularity in their religious claims, and such particularity can indeed be a source of scandal. But it can also provide an impetus for closer and more peaceful relations, as I hope to show with these reflections. As my starting point I want to lift up a statement from St. Athanasius of Alexandria, a fourth‐century theologian who was engaged in a foundational debate about how one ought to refer to God in the liturgy: Therefore it will be much more accurate to denote God from the Son and to call Him Father, than to name Him and call Him Unoriginated from His works only.1 Athanasius here argues against theological opponents who are seeking to ground liturgical practice in abstract philosophical understandings of God as the uncreated origin of all things. Athanasius argues to the contrary, that the most accurate and reliable understandings of God are those which are grounded in the particular history of God’s interactions with the world, most notably in the incarnation. Athanasius’ statement is emblematic of the path Christian theology followed in the defining debates surrounding the fourth‐century councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, which together laid the foundations for the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity. In a nutshell, the Christian tradition learned to subject all inherited understandings of God to a thoroughgoing re‐evaluation and revision in light of what the church understood to be God’s actual appearing in history in Jesus of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit. Through the work of Athanasius and his allies, the grounding source for Christian understandings of God became not philosophy, but the divine economy,2 a technical term signifying the concrete, historical particulars of God’s interaction with the world. This determination to ground religious knowledge in the history of God’s particular interactions with human beings is obviously a trait that Christianity shares with much of Judaism. The existence of the Jewish people is the result of God’s particular election of Abraham and his offspring. As the premise of our dialogue recognized clearly, this reliance on historical particulars of the divine economy is inherently scandalous. Claims that God elects this people and not that one, appears to one group of disciples and not another, are troublesome for persons and groups who stand outside the focal points of the economy or who read the history differently. Different understandings of Jesus’ place in the divine economy obviously give rise to key disagreements between Jews and Christians, but I want to claim that a determined focus on the divine economy can also serve as a key resource for fostering sympathetic and respectful relations between Christians and Jews. In order to develop this claim, I will be drawing on work presented to the Scandal of Particularity group by Kendall Soulen. But first some preliminaries: As will become clear in due course, my starting point in developing these reflections is explicitly Christian, and not of a sort that Jews would likely agree with. My goal here is not to develop a least‐common‐denominator understanding that Jews and Christians could all sign on to, doubtless at considerable cost to their respective religious identities. My aim is rather to offer explicitly Christian reflections that help to provide theological warrant for a respectful, mutually appreciative engagement with Jews. In developing its own distinctive understandings of God and God’s way with the world, historic Christianity has attended very closely to the “economic” particulars of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and the community’s encounters with the Holy Spirit. Quite striking, however, is how little theological attention has been paid to the historical reality of the Jews as a people enduring through time. What impact would it have on Christian understandings of God, and what possibilities would it open up for Christian‐Jewish relations, if the “economic..." @default.
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