Christianity and the Loss of the Messiah  

作　　者：Wolfgang Treitler 

机构地区：[1]University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2017年第7期432-451,共20页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

摘　　要：This article deals with the fundamental changes that happened to become real within the first three centuries of Christianity and turned the self-description of Christianity as a Messianic movement and community inconsistent. The main reason, as I argue, was because the Messianic confessions and expectations witnessed by early Jewish-Christian writings such as Paul＇s letters （esp. to the Romans） and the so-called Didache, a rule of a Jewish-Christian community, did not come true, since time went on, the Messiah did not reappear and, most of all, the Roman Empire remained solid. This gave way to a fundamental change caused by two historical developments and their theological effects： the slow, but steady slide of Messianic hopes as times went on and the Messiah Jesus did not reappear or change history; and the development of pagan-Christian communities approaching Jesus by the means of pagan interpretations of Jesus Christ. Eventually, these pagan interpretations made it in the 4th cent. to set up a creed that did not only suspend anything Messianic in respect of Jesus, but replace these Christian-Jewish ideas and hopes by declaring Jesus being God-man. This declaration was the end of any real Messianic hope and the end of the Jewish Jesus for many centuries. Christianity has lost its Messiah and was turned into a dogmatic religion. Facing this development it is evident that Christianity has to exceed its own dogmatic limits in respect of Jesus.

关 键 词：MESSIAH Christology PAUL Didache Jewish-Christian movements RELIGION 

分 类 号：C0[社会学]