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In the end shall Christians become Jews and Jews, Christians? On Franz Rosenzweig's apocalyptic eschatology (1).

From: Cross Currents  |  Date: 1/1/2004  |  Author: Kaplan, Gregory

Gershom Scholem's peerless 1959 essay "Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism" distinguishes "two major currents" of thought. On the one hand with redemption "the restorative forces are directed to the return and recreation of a past condition which comes to be felt as ideal." On the other hand with redemption a "catastrophe" marks "the upsetting of all moral order to the point of dissolving the laws of nature." (2) He goes on to assert that existentialist thinkers, ...

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