Bispemøtet takes away from Luther’s jødefiendtliget – Daily

Kvarme presented Friday Bispemøtets statement “the Legacy of Luther and the jewish people”.
Bispemøtet is The Norwegian church’s highest body, and the settlement with Luther comes 500 years after the reformation began in 1517 with Martin Luther’s showdown with the catholic church. The settlement led to the christian community in the west was the catholic and the protestant church.

A lasting challenge

the Settlement with the anti-jewish and anti-semitic attitudes is a lasting challenge for the church and society. In reformasjonsminnesåret 2017, we must as a church take a clear distance from the antijudaisme as Luther left, called it among other things in the statement.

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As an example of jødefiendtligheten draws Bispemøtet until the publication of “On the jews and their lies” which came in 1543 king.
Here it was, among other things: “the Jews are under the wrath of God and are children of the devil, vengeful and murderous. Their schools and synagogues should be burned, their houses demolished, they should be deprived of his writings, are forbidden to drive instruction and placed in camps”.

continuing education

26. november is the 74 years since the if of the Norwegian jews, with the ship Donau. At 70 years in 2012 came Bispemøtet with a statement about the church’s weakness in his relationship to the jews before and during the occupation, ” says Kvarme.
Bishop Kvarme throws up a etterutdanningsprosjekt about Luther and the reformation that all priests now do.
– Our hope is that this study among the Norwegian priests also will contribute to the settlement with the dark hand on the legacy of Luther as his antijudaisme is, ” says the Oslo bishop. (NTB)