God as an Incarnated Jew – a Contradiction in Terms?

What is it about?

The idea of an incarnation of God as Jesus of Nazareth was codified by church councils not until three hundred years after his death. The prologue to the Gospel of John, according to which “the Word became flesh”, was often used as the basis of the so-called “New” Testament. At the same time, the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish was ignored by Christian theologies for many centuries. It was not until the 20th century that Jesus´ Jewishness was largely acknowledged, without, however, all ex- and implicit anti-Judaism being removed from Christian theology, liturgy and catechetics. It is therefore high time to find new ways of talking about Jesus of Nazareth, to make his Jewishness the starting point for all thinking about him and to draw conclusions for his place in human history.

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Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash

Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash