TY - BOOK AU - Kung,Hans TI - Judaism T2 - The Religious situation of our time SN - 0824511816 U1 - 296 20 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Crossroad KW - Judaism KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Essence, genius, nature N1 - Translation of: Das Judentum; Includes bibliographical references (p. [637]-728) and indexes; Contents; Origins. Abraham, the tribal ancestor of three world religions ; Problems over beginnings -- The centre. The central structural elements ; The central figure -- History. The tribal paradigm : the period before the state ; The paradigm of the kingdom : the period of the monarchy ; The paradigm of theocracy : post-exilic Judaism ; The mediaeval paradigm : the rabbis and the synagogue ; The modern paradigm : assimilation -- From the Holocaust to the state of Israel. A past that will not go away ; The repression of guilt ; The return to Israel -- The dispute between Jews and Christians. Jewish in Jewish-Christian dialogue today ; Who was Jesus? ; Belief in Jesus as the Messiah? ; The history of an alienation ; A first Christian paradigm shift : from Jewish Christianity to Gentile Christianity ; Christian self-criticism in the light of Judaism ; Jewish self-criticism in the light of the Sermon on the Mount? -- The overcoming of modernity. Ways out of the identity crisis ; Basic religious options for the future? -- Judaism in the postmodern period. The advent of postmodernity ; Judaism in postmodernity -- Conflicts in life and the future of the law. The ambivalence of the law ; For God's sake? ; For the sake of human beings ; The future of the people of god -- Jews, Muslims and the future of the state of Israel. The great ideal ; The tragic conflict ; On the way to peace ; A real-utopian vision of peace -- The Holocaust the the future for talk of God. The Holocaust in Jewish theology ; Understanding God after Auschwitz -- Epilogue : no new world order without a new world ethic ER -