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The Myth of a Judeo-Christian Tradition Both Jewish and Christian scholars agree that it was Jesus Christ's flagrant rejection of this "Tradition of the Elders" and his open confrontation with the powerful Pharisees that created the climate that led to his death. Christianity was the restatement of a very old doctrine encompassing the Old Testament and the grand verities of the ancients. Christianity and Judaism are two distinct religious inheritances, despite all the superficial attempts by modern scholars to manufacture a naive "Judeo-Christianity." The very term "Judeo-Christian" is a mischievous misnomer without historical or Scriptural validity. www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4803.htm   (3480 words)

Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Judeo-Christian tradition -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) In The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Jewish theologian-novelist Arthur A. Cohen[?] questions the theological appropriateness of the term and suggests that it was essentially an invention of American politics. The Judeo-Christian tradition, perhaps, consists of no more than what is found in the text of the Tanach (the Old Testament of the Christian Bible), but, even so, this is a considerable portion of the cultural heritage of the western world. Christians and Jews relate to each other better today than they have in the past, but anti-Semitism among Christians - and a corresponding hatred by some Jews - has by no means disappeared completely. www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ju/Judeo-Christian_tradition   (1789 words)

Judeo-Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christianity emerged from Judaism in the century after the death of Herod the Great. Christianity dropped some fundamental Jewish practices, however, particularly the Jewish covenant on male circumcision, and its most significant early prophet, Paul of Tarsus, himself a Roman citizen, made a point of preaching to the gentiles of the Roman Empire, leading eventually to the religion's modern popularity. The term was invented in the United States of America in an attempt to create a non-denominational religious consensus or civil religion that, by embracing Judaism, avoided the appearance of anti-Semitism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judeo-Christian_tradition   (795 words)

Judeo-Christian tradition/Talk - Wikipedia What is clear is that the traditional view has precedence until a new view becomes formally and officialy accepted, and the traditional view for the past 2000 years has been that all people go to Hell (or perhaps limbo) without belief in Jesus. The Crusades wound up attacking Eastern Orthodox Christians as well as Muslims, the Reformation led to battles between Lutherans, Catholics, and Calvinists, and both of those groups hunted down and killed the Anabaptists, and of course the later wars between various European countries were fought between ostensibly Christian nations. For Christians, belief in God and Jesus are mandatory, and the punishment for failure to believe in God and Jesus is that the doubter will never achieve salvation. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judeo-Christian_tradition/Talk   (4224 words)

The Power of Christian Philosophy to Transform Man and Society Christian philosophy, with its themes of the dignity of the human person, the primacy of the family, and the proper function of the state with respect to the common good, has also proved decisive in making modern democratic and freedom-loving institutions possible. It is actually the Judeo-Christian tradition with its distinctive philosophy that has given the edge to the Western world in leading the world civilization, not any alleged genetic or racial superiority, whose complete falsehood has been thoroughly demonstrated by sound philosophy and modern science, and resolutely rejected by sound theology. That this tradition has actually shaped European civilization and thereby world civilization led Cardinal Newman in his Idea of a University (1850) to propose that Christian theology should be the core subject of the liberal arts curriculum, so as to contextualize the philosophy that has shaped world civilization. catholiceducation.org /articles/civilization/cc0001.html   (2032 words)

Emotions in the Christian Tradition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Christian doctrine does teach that God is fearsome and wonderful, but other attributes of God are much more to the fore in the emotion of compassion: God's fatherly nurturing tenderness and forgiveness, his long-suffering love. The Christian emotions are given their distinctive character by their doctrinal content: The three cited prayers expressive of the distinctively Christian emotions all trade on propositional beliefs of the kind that the Christian community routinely teaches its members. They are a sine qua non for genuine adherence to the tradition, and the degree to which they are actual in the life of any adherent is an index of the depth with which that adherent represents his or her tradition and is a successful human specimen by its lights. plato.stanford.edu /entries/emotion-Christian-tradition   (5691 words)

Judeo-Christian tradition Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) This has been ridiculed by the American Family Association [1], an activist organization of the Christian right, as a movement promoted by "Muslim special-interest groups" to make "radical Islamist fundamentalism" appear mainstream and tolerant of Judaism and Christianity, and therefore the term appeals to people who see "all traditions as being equally valid". Generally speaking, most Protestant Christians still believe that Jews must ultimately accept that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and that Jesus is the only correct way to have a relationship with God in order to reach heaven. In Catholic tradition, this view is likened to an early heresy called Marcionism. wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/judeo_christian_tradition.html   (1095 words)

Judeo-Christian tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Judeo-Christian tradition (also spelled Judaeo-Christian) is the body of concepts and values held in common by Christianity and Judaism. Jews, Catholic Christians and some Protestant groups reject such claims as historical anachronisms; despite the historical relationship between Christianity and Judaism, today these are distinct religions with very different theologies. The Judeo-Christian tradition, perhaps, consists of no more than what is found in the text of the Tanakh (the Old Testament of the Christian Bible), but, even so, this is a considerable portion of the cultural heritage of the western world. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/judeo_christian_tradition   (1115 words)

Judeo-Christian (Christeo-Judean) Tradition and Islam The idea of a "Judeo-Christian Tradition" has been in fashion for some time among political theorizers and the image this phrase evokes in the minds of most people is that it means the common values of Judaism and Christianity, on which the "Modern Western Civilization" is based. Such Christian views of the Jews persisted as the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic church until 1965, when the Vatican accepted the legitimacy of Judaism as a religion and exonerated the Jews from the blame for the murder of Jesus. At the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century, as Christianity was being increasingly replaced by political ideologies, pseudo-scientific racial theories began to emerge. www.truth-and-justice.info /judeo-christian.html   (1124 words)

Commentary Magazine - The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) ...The Judeo-Christian tradition was acknowledged, this time, by Christianity, but by a Christianity anxious to demonstrate that what had been correctly denigrated by the Enlightenment was, in fact, the teaching of the ancient Jews whose additions to and alterations of the pure Hebrew vision corrupted the source of Christianity... ...And when that tradition ran the risk of splintering, it was set down, redacted, and sealed, and the tradition ended-only to begin again as rabbinic tradition, which in turn was accumulated, transmitted, developed, argued, lived, until it too became so vast, so sprawling, so subtle that it demanded redaction... ...Christianity is, as Christians describe it, the younger brother to Judaism and, as Judaism describes it, the daughter religion... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V48I5P75-1.htm   (3388 words)

Touchstone Archives: Of Trees & Tradition One rhetorical device used to distinguish that Tradition from any number of non-Christian traditions, or sub-traditions within the Christian faith, is to use a capital T. We may debate the tradition of gnosticism, for example, without confusing it with the Tradition of Christianity. That’s the Tradition articulated for Jews by the Torah, the Talmud, Rabbi Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, Nachmanides, and others; and for Christians by the Holy Scriptures, the Cappadocian and Desert Fathers, St. Athanasius, St. Maximus the Confessor, St. John of Damascus, St. Gregory Palamas, St. Seraphim of Sarov, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and others. Christian churches, in particular—while polarizing on the issue—are at least confessing that there’s an issue to polarize over, and many are searching their heritages for clues on how to live and how to steward. www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=14-10-044-b   (1249 words)

Search Results for "Judeo-Christian" In Judeo-Christian and Muslim traditions, the day at the end of the world when God judges the moral worth of individual humans or the whole human race. Eighty percent reject the example The Judeo-Christian ethic is one of the important parameters of Western culture.... Eighty percent of Panelists reject this use of parameter in the example The Judeo-Christian ethic is one of the important parameters of Western culture.... www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Judeo-Christian   (312 words)

Judeo-Christian tradition - Wikipedia Judeo-Christian tradition (also spelled Judaeo-Christian) refers to concepts and values seen as held in common by Christianity and Judaism. It is frequently used in American political discourse, in an attempt to create a non-denominational American Christian religious consenus that does not appear anti-semitic by excluding Judaism. The reality is more nuanced; Judaism and Christianity have both many areas of agreement, as well as sharply defined ethical and religious systems that are in some areas polar opposites. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judeo-Christian_tradition   (426 words)

American Journal of Biblical Theology The Christian church of whatever name is based on the theory that woman was created secondary and inferior to man and brought sin into the world, thus necessitating the sacrifice of the Saviour... Christianity is false and its foundation a myth which every discovery in science shows to be as baseless as its former belief that the earth was flat. Because Christianity sought to divorce itself from ancient pagan religions, in which goddesses were often worshipped, Daly argued that Christian theologians constructed their views of women as exact opposites of the powerful goddesses. www.biblicaltheology.com /Research/YenRJ01.html   (8794 words)

JoT Rel TenCommandments Christianity is based on the practice of blasphemy, worshiping a human being as God. Jewish tradition holds that there are 613 commandments, all of them equal. People say that they're part of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but using one format or the other implicitly takes sides in terms of whose version of the Ten Commandments is right. www.jonathantweet.com /jotreltencommand.html   (1421 words)

Anglican Journal -- Concern for this world at heart of Judeo-Christian tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Its thesis is that Christian practice, loving God and neighbour as subjects, as worthy of our love, should be extended to nature. Christians should not only be "natural," understanding themselves as of the earth, but also super, natural, understanding themselves as superlatively concerned with nature and its well-being. The sacramental tradition teaches that the world is valuable, holy, and a symbol of the divine. www.anglicanjournal.com /124/04/book06.html   (718 words)

Judeo-christian Tradition - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Judeo Christian Tradition and the U.S. Constitution: Proceedings of a Conference at the Annenberg Research Institute, November 16-17, 1987 For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition In American Culture Outpouring of the Spirit: Gay and Lesbian Spirituality in the Judeo-Christian Tradition encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /judeo-christian_tradition.htm   (93 words)

A Judeo-Christian Looks at the Judeo-Christian Tradition In The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition (Harper and Row, 1970), Jewish theologian-novelist Arthur A. Cohen questions the theological appropriateness of the term and suggests that it was essentially an invention of American politics. If the "Judeo-Christian tradition" is a civil counter to that history (in which case, give it one and a half cheers), theologically it threatens both components (hence, withhold the other one and a half cheers). Whatever is worthwhile in that tradition has prospered best when people propagated it voluntarily—because they believed it and lived by it and commended it to others by word and example. www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=188   (2130 words)

Tradition One way to think about what this means for the heirs of the Judeo-Christian tradition, I suggest, is to say that it calls for a shift from regarding ourselves as defenders of the faith to regarding ourselves as apostles of veracity. This is a form of traditional faith that has turned in on itself and has no interest in asking whether the faith it affirms is veridical, as J.A.T. Robinson put it—that is, corresponds with reality—but only with whether "the faithful" everywhere have always believed it. This is the only course open to those who regard it as necessary for Christians to live within the world of their sacred texts and in submission to the authority of their tradition. www.westarinstitute.org /Periodicals/4R_Articles/Tradition/tradition.html   (2578 words)

Who are the Moral Free Riders? Is the Judeo-Christian tradition trespassing on liberal-socialist territory? Note also that the greatest of all the 17th century mathematical geniuses was Isaac Newton, whose laws of motion and the equations for predicting gravity’s effects on movements of heavenly bodies, not to mention invention of calculus and the physics of optics and light, were the foundations of modern science. This Christian ethic is criticized by liberals, because it is highly individualistic and thus at odds with socialist collectivism. www.intellectualconservative.com /article4205.html   (1899 words)

buddhists: Western Buddhism and the influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition A key theme of the Psalms, and therefore of Judaism and Christianity, is the nobility of the oppressed and the necessity of justice and righteousness, that the oppressed be cared for and uplifted and that there be social justice for all. I think that there's a lot of value in most, if not all, of the religious traditions of the world, and I think it's important for people to acknowledge the potential strengths of what they have inherited as individuals who are shaped by their culture. I personally feel that coming of Westerners to Buddhism (which isn't really that new, comparitively, just slow) was a good infusion of a fresh view into it since their minds have not been dulled or inurred by simply being born and raised in it. community.livejournal.com /buddhists/1688835.html   (4423 words)

Gibson, Lebanon in Judeo-Christian line of fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The irony, of course, is that Christians have in European countries and, indeed, in the US itself, held anti-Semitic views, which have erupted from time to time in systematic pogroms of Jews in Europe during the Middle Ages, and later on in Tsarist Russia, and culminated in the holocaust during the time of Nazi Germany. But, in their zeal to gloss over this fact and apparently to atone for other Christians' crimes against the Jewish community in Europe, American Christian fundamentalists are solidly uniting behind Israeli policies and acts in the Middle East, including keeping the crisis alive for both Tel Aviv and Washington's strategic interests. And now the fundamentalist Judeo-Christian tradition has compounded the problem by effectively absolving the Israelis of all crimes and shifting the blame on the Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, Hammas, Hezbollah and anyone else opposed to that tradition of nefarious design's plan for the region. nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/printer_30163.shtml   (1459 words)

Regarding the term Judeo-Christian The term "Judeo-Christian" was invented during World War II, when Christians started realizing how rude it was to rail against the Nazis for violating "Christian decency" since so many of the Nazi victims were Jewish. Unfortunately, all too often, that word merely replaces the word "Christian" without any deeper look at the underlying concepts, thus evoking a popular image that Judaism and Christianity have more in common than they actually do. Instead, it is much closer to the truth to state that from the matrix of ideas surrounding the end of the Second Temple era emerged two religions, Christianity and rabbinical Judaism, both of which claimed continuity with the original religion. www.osmond-riba.org /lis/essay_JC.htm   (740 words)

The Myth of a Judeo-Christian Tradition Never the less a number of modern Christian polemicists have managed to rest certain New Testament verses in the drive to give a Scriptural basis to their argument. Confusion over the origin of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity is the root of the Judeo-Christian myth. Biblical scholars Robert and Mary Coote clearly show in their book Power, Politics and the Making of the Bible that neither is Christianity a patched up Judaism, nor is Rabbinic Judaism automatically synonymous with the religion of Moses and the old Hebrews. www.biblebelievers.org.au /judeochr.htm   (3508 words)

The Judeo-Christian Tradition He argued that Western cultures passes through three stages: when Christians are a minority in a pagan society; when the whole of society can be called Christian; and when society ceases to be Christian and Christians again become a minority. An individual European may not believe that the Christian Faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does, will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning. On the one hand is the Christian worldview, springing from its Hebrew roots, which provides a basis for society, for philosophy, for all of life. jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/16565.htm   (1619 words)

Polygamy in the Judeo-Christian tradition in the west and in islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Polygamy in the Judeo-Christian tradition in the west and in islam Montesquieu, quoting a Roman historian, says that several Roman philosophers, who were being tortured by the Christians because they refused to embrace Christianity, fled from Rome and took refuge in the court of the Iranian King, Khusro Parviz. For example, many young African brides, whether Christians or Muslims or otherwise, would prefer to marry a married man who has already proved himself to be a responsible husband. www.dislam.org /womaninislam/polygamy.html   (6579 words)

Guardians of Darkness This is an age in which news has been superseded by propaganda, and education by brain-washing and indoctrination from the advertising used to sell poor quality goods, to the classes in schools designed to make children into conditioned robots of the State, the art of persuasion has displaced the simple virtue of truth. The Christian god is a triune god and the religion is dualistic: its real roots are provably in Manichaeism and Paganism. Christianity is a Pagan cult with Manichaean flesh-hating roots that got very big and often went berserk. www.geocities.com /go_darkness/god-jc-myth.html   (2318 words)

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