At its roots, anti-Semitism in Christian civilization springs from Christian theological anti-Judaism, the German professor told the audience. From the cruel taunts of children, to pogroms, the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust, the Gospel accounts of Yeshua's arrest, trial, abuse, and crucifixion - still read in churches today - have served as a fountainhead of anti-Semitism.
Basically anti-Semitism arose in the early Christian church as a reaction against Judaism over the concept of the Messiah as well as the Law.
Anti-Judaism developed theologically in Christianity as the left hand of Christology, the branch of theology dealing with the person and the deeds of Yeshua as the son of God....anti-Judaism was the negative side of the Christian claim that Yeshua was the Christ.
Christianity saw itself as the fulfillment of Judaic messianism, but since the Jewish tradition rejected this claim, Christianity developed a polemic against the Jewish tradition to explain how Christianity could be the fulfillment of a Jewish religious tradition that Jews themselves had rejected.
It was Christian theology which developed the thesis of the eternal reprobate, the damned status of the Jew in history, and laid the foundation for the demonic view of the Jews which fanned the flames of popular hatred,...This hatred became incorporated into the structure of Christian canon law and civil law formed under Christendom.
It is important for Christianity to deal fully with its role in the history of anti-Semitism. Christian churches have to break with the theology of triumphalism and work towards a theology of hope. The primary source for such hatred is the New Testament as the vast majority of it's religious and theological doctrines are anti-Judaic and this is amazing since the center of the book revolves around a Jewish Rabbi (THINK)!