Jewish nationalization realized rather than abandoned Christian millenarian theology

Evidence

Millenarianism (and also anti-millenarianism) was the context in which visions of redemption of the Jews were first presented as a political program, formulated in modern political concepts of state and sovereignty. The secularization – that is to say, nationalization – of Jewish consciousness meant its articulation according to the millenarian Christian language and its accommodation into the Christian perception of history. In other words, the nationalization of the Jews can be seen as the secularization (namely, realization) of the Christian millenarian perception. Secularization in that sense is realization of the theological. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 339

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Flipping the familiar secularization thesis — secularity realized rather than displaced the theological — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting inversion relevant to the entire volume’s sacred-values analytic.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core question: whether the supposedly secular nationalist frame actually remains theological in content, complicating any professed-conviction-vs-measured-sacrality distinction. — connects to: The political restoration of Jews originated as a Christian millenarian idea — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 149; Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 315; Jewishness was transposed from a nation’s religion into a national religion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 836 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Zionist secularization nationalized messianic myth rather than replacing it #corroborates (1.00) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 315
• Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it #corroborates (0.95)
• Jewishness was transposed from a nation’s religion into a national religion #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 836
• Secular Zionism replicated Protestant supersessionist theology toward Jews #corroborates (0.85)
• Christian millenarians first described Jewish redemption in modern political terms #expands (0.80)
• Even Jewish theology adopted the systematic form of surrounding Christian culture #expands (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 328
• Modern classification of cultures secularized earlier religious structures #expands (0.72)