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2014.
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Political attitudes towards the modern state of Israel are substantially influenced by underlying theological issues in Pauline Christianity regarding ethnic versus spiritual Israel. The very charge of Israel as occupier can be seen as an inverted perception or even a psychological projection emerging from the supersessionist view that the Pauline Church is the New Israel, displacing the Jewish people as God's elect. Hard and soft political charges of Israel as 'occupier' are discussed as are hard and soft claims of theological supersessionism. Dual covenant Christians tend not to espouse the view of Israel as occupier. Finally, these political and theological realms of thinking are linked in an attempt to bring psychological clarity to the peculiar nature of political projection towards the modern state of Israel, among Christians and even post-Christians in the West.
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190048
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This article examines the close relationship between the consistent practice of lethal journalism (in this case reporting Palestinian war propaganda as news) among Western journalists, and the sudden appearance of the ‘new antisemitism’ at the turn of the last millennium. It looks closely at two cases – the al-Durah ‘murder’ (September 2000) and the Jenin ‘massacre’ (April 2002), and the manner in which this allegedly professional journalism opened the door to a host of postmodern antisemitic themes, from Holocaust inversion to progressive supersessionist projections, and the manner in which Jihadists bent on destroying the West have used through this unacknowledged hostility to Jews – it’s merely criticism of Israel – as the West’s soft underbelly.
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184132
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This article introduces the work of black liberation theologian James H. Cone into the mutual silence between the study of race and the study of Christian theology in IR. Despite the theological roots of the colonial-modern idea of race, these areas of study in IR have mostly been approached separately. Cone’s thought responds to the complicity of white supremacy and Christianity, whilst theorising a theology of black liberation. It is thus witness and testament to the redemptive potential of a theological frame, inviting us to think beyond secular reason. Cone’s thought raises important theological questions about universality, a central stake for IR discussions of Christian theology. This article identifies supersessionism, the idea that Christianity supersedes both Judaism, and any particularity (as a potentially universal salvific community), as a key notion in the enlightenment secularisation of theological thought, and the development of a racialised colonial modernity that modelled itself in part on Christianity’s longstanding anti-Semitism. This article opens an engagement with Cone’s work for discussions of both Christian theology and race in IR, pointing to the innermost doctrines of Christianity as a site of tension at which race thinking and Christianity are connected, and at which they might be de-linked.
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