Abstract

Jerusalem Trapped between the Vatican, Moscow, Republican Evangelism, Judaic Messianism, and Islam

Highlights

  • In 1983, 36 years ago, an American newsmagazine devoted to political science, “Executive Intelligence Review”, passed an ominous prognosis: “Temple Mount fundamentalists launching new Mideast holy wars”

  • The provocative catchphrase passed by the American review of political science was, undoubtedly, based on two hard facts: in 1967, Israel dominated the entire territory by the River Jordan and incorporated whole Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount

  • The purpose of this paper is to present this issue and the conflict with the Church of Rome (Catholic Church) and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, represented by Moscow Orthodoxy

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Summary

Introduction

In 1983, 36 years ago, an American newsmagazine devoted to political science, “Executive Intelligence Review”, passed an ominous prognosis: “Temple Mount fundamentalists launching new Mideast holy wars”. A right-wing group, later known as the Moral Majority, was already forming in the United States in the 1970s in order to stop the waves of liberal orga­ nisations acting under the motto of equality and the rights of individuals

Jerusalem between Denominations
Jerusalem in the National Context
Evangelists and Politicised Theology
The Nationalisation of the Near East
National Homes for the Disabled
Muslims Conquer the Near East
Old Messiahs in New Clothes Play Out the Temple Mount
Judas Iscariot
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