Also, the desire to embrace the continuation of the Jewish religion, rather than the negation, under Christ is being rediscovered in beautiful ways. This of course, dealing with God’s covenants, His people and what marks them out as His, etc. The heavy anti-semitism, most noticeably from the 4th century on by the church, has been linked to the Greek “trinity” of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on the Church’s approach rather than the Hebraic understanding. This is what is driving much scholarship today in the Reformed circles of Christianity. The idea of the “rediscovering” of historical context and the mindset of Judaism, the followers of this Judaic Messiah, and the sociological implications are creating much fruitful discussion. Again, this is extremely broad, but at least covers an overview of some of the main presuppositions.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Someone writes in this controversy at FPR:
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One should read Eric Nelson's The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought where the Scottish Presbyterians and other radical leveller Protestants gloried in being 'Talmudic Commonwealthsmen'.
I consider Protestantism nothing more than Judaized Christianity stripped of its European accoutrements. Even the Anglicans called Puritans 'demi-jews'.
Jerry Dell Ehrlich wrote a fantastic book, Plato's Gift to Christianity. Plato is the metaphysical founder of Christianity. He laid out the intellectual framework of Hellenism which was the culture of Jesus Christ. My teacher Archimandrite Boniface Luykx, was constantly referencing Dumezil and his trifunctionality concept in the creation of Christianity.
Protestants love to complain about the 'pagan' elements in Roman Catholicism. They're right! It's called European traits, customs, traditions. Christianity is not a Jewish religion but Greek!
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