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Jewish State and Theology Modified by Political, Social and Military Events

In social studies conducted during the last decades, considerable attention has been payed to influence of theology on political and social processes, particularly in the Middle East. However, there has also been an on-going reverse process, drawing far less, if any, attention: influence of political and social processes on theologies. Emergence of the Zionist movement in late 19th Century, establishment of the State of Israel 1948, and in particular the Six-Day War 1967, prompted theological shifts in all three major monotheistic religions. In Judaism, active, eschatological and militaristic Messianism appeared for the first time since Talmudic era. In Christianity, religious philo-Judaism superseded replacement theology’s anti-Judaism as dominant feature of large parts of the Church, arguably for the first time ever. Finally, view of Jews in Muslim thought changed profoundly in comparison to the message of the Islamic Canon, early (normative) tradition and most of Islamic history until early 20th Century. In Hajj-Amin el-Husseini’s interpretation, their image transformed from al-dhilla wa‘l-maskana, nation humiliated by Allah for eternity, to a nation capable of perpetrating world-wide conspiracies. Issue to be discussed is: how will those new theological developments influence back politics and social processes, both in the Middle East, and in Europe?

Middle East ; Islam ; Israel ; Messianism ; Hajj-Amin el-Husseini

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