I know.
Funny, I still don't have a clear picture on what it is or how its wrong.
Does any one Denomination within Christianity?
Supersessionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supersessionism,
fulfillment theology, and
replacement theology are terms for the
biblical interpretation that the
New Covenant supersedes or replaces the
Mosaic Covenant,
[1][2] the latter thus also referred to as the
Old Covenant.
Types
Both
Christian and Jewish theologians have identified different types of supersessionism in Christian reading of the Bible.
R. Kendall Soulen notes three categories of supersessionism identified by Christian theologians: punitive, economic, and structural.
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Christian views
The early Christian theologians saw
the New Covenant in Christ as a replacement for the Mosaic Covenant (see "Roman Catholicism", below).
Historically, statements on behalf of the
Roman Catholic Church have claimed her ecclesiastical structures to be a fulfillment and replacement of Jewish ecclesiastical structures (see also
Jerusalem as an allegory for the Church).
As recently as 1965 Vatican Council II affirmed, "
the Church is the new
people of God," without intending to make "
Israel according to the flesh", the Jewish people, irrelevant in terms of
eschatology (see "Roman Catholicism, below).
Church fathers
Many
Early Christian commentators taught that
the Old Covenant was fulfilled and replaced (superseded) by the New Covenant in Christ, for instance:
Roman Catholicism
Supersessionism is not the name of any official
Roman Catholic doctrine and the word appears in no Church documents; however, the Catholic Church does officially teach that the Mosaic covenant was fulfilled and replaced by the New Covenant in Christ.
Nevertheless, the Catholic Church does not teach that the Jewish people themselves are effectively irrelevant in terms of
eschatology and
Biblical prophecy (see:
Avery Cardinal Dulles).
Protestant view
Protestant views on supersessionism revolve around their understanding of the relationship between the various covenants of the Bible, particularly the relationship between the covenants of the Old Testament and the New Covenant.
The most prominent Protestant views on this relationship are called
Law and Gospel,
Covenant theology,
New Covenant Theology, and
Dispensationalism. These views are not restricted to a single
denomination.
Jewish view
See also:
Christianity and Judaism
From a
Jewish perspective, however, the
Torah was given to the Jewish people as an eternal covenant (for example
Exo 31:16-17,
Exo 12:14-15) and will never be replaced or added to (for example
Deut 4:2,
13:1), and hence
Judaism rejects supersessionism as contrary to the
Hebrew Bible at best (see also
Antinomianism) and
antisemitic at worst. For Judaism and other critics, supersessionism is a theology of replacement, which substitutes the Christian church, consisting of
Christians, for the
Jewish and
B'nei Noah people.
Modern Jews are offended by the traditional Christian belief in supersessionism,
[28] and some historians see supersessionism as one source of anti-Semitism in Western culture.
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