Rosenzweig constructed a political theology dividing Judaism, Islam, and Christianity by war and love.

Evidence

If Judaism knows nothing of war-loving the self and, unmediated, the neighbor, and thus experiencing only political war-Islam knows nothing of love, and thus spreads nothing but holy war. This, then, is Rosenzweig’s political theology. At the theological pole, Judaism experiences only political war. At the political pole, Islam spreads only holy war. And in between lies Christendom, undecidably theologico-political. This is because Islam fails to secure any theological status. In what is much more than the expression of a contingent prejudice, Rosenzweig claims that Islam may be theologically oriented, but knows nothing of religion: “Islam has neither creation nor revelation, although it struts about, full of pomp and dignity with both of them as it found them” (n7/G130). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 493

Categorization

• XREF: The symmetrical structuring — where the Jew is the internal theological enemy — connects to the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge and the enemy as concept treated elsewhere in the batch.