Christ Through Jewish Eyes (original) (raw)

2004, Aspects of Liberal Judaism: Essays in Honour of John D. Rayner, ed. D. J. Goldberg and E. Kessler, Valentine Mitchell

This article argues that the role Christ plays theologically for Christians is played for Jews by the Torah, and that both are conceptually related to the Biblical idea of Wisdom and the of Logos of Philo of Alexandria, serving as a sacred bridge between the human and the divine. The roles of Christ and Torah, respectively, are explored through the theological prism of creation, revelation and redemption, including a discussion of sin and atonement in Judaism and Christianity. The phenomenological similarities of eucharistic ritual and the ceremony of reading the Torah are considered. The article concludes with reflection on the meaning of the disparate manifestations of the logos in the two religions, and what this might mean in a contemporary, non-literalist understanding of both the incarnation and the revelation at Sinai.

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