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| .........Hieronymus Bosch, Christ carrying the cross, c1490 |
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Our common inhumanity: the history of anti-semitism
‘POSSIBLY,’ wrote the theologian Rosemary Ruether, ‘anti-Judaism is too deeply embedded in the foundations of Christianity to be rooted out entirely without destroying the whole structure.’ It is partly because its implications for our central cultural orthodoxy are so terrifying that we have sometimes been reluctant to face up to the history of anti-semitism . . . . |
