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Document Details : Title: Multilateral Solidarity and the Limits of Comparison Subtitle: Towards a Decolonial Turn in Jewish-Christian Comparative Theology. A Research Program Author(s): MOYAERT, Marianne Journal: Louvain Studies Volume: 47 Issue: 3 Date: 2024 Pages: 211-236 DOI: 10.2143/LS.47.3.3295265 Abstract : This article, based on my inaugural lecture, subjects the field of Jewish-Christian comparative theology after the Holocaust to a critical analysis, identifying three structural shortcomings that hamper the theological and ethical potential of the field. The first shortcoming concerns the uniqueness claim of the Jewish-Christian relation, which entails a separation of the (comparative) theology of this relation from broader patterns of religious imagination and exclusion. The second shortcoming is the Eurocentric orientation of the field, which also entails the risk that Jewish history is reduced to a history of suffering. This leads to other perspectives – such as that of Mizrachi Jews, Palestinian Christians, and non-white Christians – becoming marginalized. The third shortcoming is the presupposed uniqueness of the Holocaust, which obscures its structural entanglements with colonial and racial forms of violence and confines theological reflection to a primarily European framework of self-understanding. The article argues for a fundamental reorientation of Christian-Jewish comparative theology towards a relational, intersectional, and decolonial approach that is open to interwoven histories, asymmetrical responsibilities, and multilateral solidarity. Above all, this article will, however, provide an impetus for rethinking Christian-Jewish dialogue. |
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