Israel and Humanity - The idea for progress in religion from Judaism

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The idea of progress in religion in Judaism.

If the idea of progress is really a doctrine constituent of Judaism, she will end up in religions that claim their legitimate heirs. As they present themselves as the realization of the Messianic ideal, if the notion of a future progress remains at home in these conditions, it is surely proof that these ideas belong to the common fund from which they come, otherwise the belief in the advent of the Messiah would have erased any desire for a better future, a similar expectation can not belittle that the ideal was thought to have reached the final and we should believe. But the doctrine of progress formed an important part of Jewish heritage and the facts so eloquently said all that evil, instead of having disappeared for ever as expected, on the contrary continued in all its forms to afflict humanity, and finally we felt so good, but to admit that the alleged Messiahs were not up to the ideal to be realized, that despite the new beliefs of messianic expectation does not cease completely . Biblical and rabbinic traditions, which referred to the end of time the messianic kingdom, persisted among the very people who believed they no longer need and we see Jesus call himself the Paraclete future that he says , "will teach you all things" [1] [2] We mention as a sure sign of the messianic hopes of survival, even after the advent of so-called messiahs, millenarianism or thousand-year reign, which was Part of the beliefs of early Christianity and, like faith in the resurrection of which he is distinguished only by greater prominence given to the element palingenetic the Cosmos, attests to the most audacious belief in universal progress. millennia and ideas, so to speak, the apocalypticism, which, according to Renan, have flourished in Iran since a very early period, are found today in some Protestant sects. These Christians believe in this more true to the thought of Jesus in any case they prove the vitality of the Jewish ideal even in religions from Judaism and unfortunately separated from him.

Today, the Catholic and Protestant theologians have seen messianism in the reign of a thousand years and explained the millenarianism by the return of Jews to Palestine, their conversion to Christianity and the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem where all nations will worship God [3] In the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas made progress Universal Law of things and particularly of human knowledge. If the Gospel contains all divine revelation, there is even less, according to the author of the Somme, a continual and indefinite progress in the understanding of the Gospel. And after them the Montanists Amaury de Chartres, Joachim of Flora, John of Parma shared world history into three periods: the Old Testament as the reign of the Father, the New Testament or the reign of the Son, and finally that of the everlasting gospel and kingdom of the Spirit. Dante, Paracelsus, Campanella, Lessing admired more or less the division. Finally what is known in all Christian churches the glorious advent of Jesus Christ, His Second Coming, has no origin or meaning other than the persistence of messianic expectation.

We are not only to find in Christian beliefs in the footsteps of Jewish ideas. Freelance writers share completely the way we see and feel the same Islam. "Christianity," said one of them, with its glorious advent, Islam attest that his Mahdi messianism [4] is not yet opened "[5] In Islam, the character of the Madhi, similar to the Paraclete Christian is quite mysterious. Nothing is known of him than his name. It is also known as Muhammad as the Messiah is called by David Ezekiel, must appear after a long period of unfairness, to make the good triumph and bring the land of abundance and prosperity. Sufis from Persia were always at the palace of Isfahan constantly saddled two horses, one for the Mahdi, the other for his lieutenant. Maybe there is a reminiscence of what the Talmud says about Shapur, king of Persia, who, hearing one day a rabbi say that the Messiah would make his appearance on a donkey, said: Let me send him a brilliant white horse! [6] In a city of Mesopotamia, the inhabitants wore every day in front of the mosque when it was said that the Mahdi had gone to see it again, and this expectation of the enigmatic character, to have changed shape has not ceased in Islam. We know that in the Midrash Eha it is also told that the Messiah is already born, but he stayed in hiding to reveal himself in due time.


References

  1. S. John XV, 26
  2. Page 334
  3. V. HAAG, History of Faith , II, 235
  4. Page 335
  5. STEFANONI, Critica delle superstizioni , II, p. 165.
  6. Sanhedrin, 98.