An Analysis of the Principles and Functions of the Concepts of Emancipation and Messianism in Jewish Pragmatic Theology

This article is to study the bases and the interaction of social and intellectual levels of Jewish theology. Based on the hypothesis of this research, Jewish theology and theosophy can’t be analyzed without their relation to the sociopolitical aspect. So, along with Jewish belief and claim on their being Yahweh's chosen people, they have been struggling with various problems and sufferings (straggling, expulsion, slavery, etc.). It may be for this reason that against other monotheistic religions that have concentrated on salvation, Jews theological and theosophical literature talks about emancipation and salvation. This emancipation has individual and collective dimensions. The collective dimension which links Jewish theology with social and objective life, is conjugated with pragmatic Messianism. Not only is this based on a prospect for Messiah’s advent (the redeemer messiah of the Jewish), but mostly contains serious pragmatic dimension for preparing the context for the advent and the ultimate emancipation to be realized. The theoretical and methodological framework of this study is based on the theory of (critical) discourse analysis, especially the interpretation which is provided by Norman Fairclough.