RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Interfaith Dialogue, Satan, Supersessionism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS121
• Professor: David Seljak

Document Summary

Evil, modernity, and religion: the holocaust challenges, traditional judaism, christianity, modernity. Challenge to modernity: complicity of modernity in the holocaust, belief in social progress : eugenics, utopianism, triumph of reason: role science, technology, bureaucracy in exterminations, human rights culture was very fragile, ethics of beyond limits (machbarkeit) #2: judaism is not dead, god never withdraws a promise that is made, jews are saved through judaism and the covenant that god made with moses. Wednesday, september 27, 2017: the torah saves the jews, any form of anti-semitism should be opposed. Dimensions of sin in the christian tradition: three dimensions of evil, traditional concepts of evil, personal sin: a personal decision to violate god"s commandments or be unfaithful to. God: a cosmological reality, communal sin: a collective decision to violate god"s commandments or be unfaithful to god, i. e. , worship other gods or adopt another religion, without sin there is no christianity. The subject is the individual (role of temptation)