Abstract
In the early 1920’s, the liberal rabbi Leo Baeck and the Jesuit Erich Przywara developed a surprisingly similar idea: polarity is the formal side of the essence of both Judaism and Catholicism. The aim of this article is to analyse the constellation of cultural, political and religious currents that emerged in the aftermath of the First World War and to bring to light the interplay of the many factors that gave rise to Baeck and Przywara’s idea of Jewish and Catholic polarity (I.), to set forth the two polarity systems in their internal logic and their respective claims (II.), and finally to compare the two ways of thinking and to formulate some questions about the relevance of polarity thinking (III.). As an indirect contribution, this article aims to broaden the horizon of the ongoing debate on Przywara’s later confrontation with Jewish philosophy of religion.
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