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At its roots, anti-Semitism in Christian civilization springs from Christian theological anti-Judaism, the German professor told the audience. From the cruel taunts of children, to pogroms, the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust, the Gospel accounts of Yeshua's arrest, trial, abuse, and crucifixion - still read in churches today - have served as a fountainhead of anti-Semitism.
It was Christian theology which developed the thesis of the eternal reprobate, the damned status of the Jew in history, and laid the foundation for the demonic view of the Jews which fanned the flames of popular hatred. This hatred became incorporated into the structure of Christian canon law and civil law formed under Christendom.
It is important for Christianity to deal fully with its role in the history of anti-Semitism. Christian churches have to break with the theology of triumphalism and work towards a theology of hope. The primary source for such hatred is the New Testament as the vast majority of it's religious and theological doctrines are anti-Judaic and this is amazing since the center of the book revolves around a Jewish Rabbi (THINK)!
To a "thinking believer" this should alert you to a concerted effort by the later emerging Gentile Roman Christian Church to institute a "replacement religion" in place of the "faith once given the Saints", whose religious tenants and precepts can be traced back through earlier nations to the beginning of recorded time.
