Verus Israel

The replacement theology or theory of substitution, or supercessionism is a doctrine that Christianity would have been substituted for Judaism in the plan of God.

In the mid- ^second century , Justin Martyr (100-114 - 162-168), in the Dialogue with Trypho , a dialogue in which he defends Christianity against an imaginary Jewish interlocutor says for the first time that the Church is the "true Israel" (cf. 135).

Sometimes we consider that this book is the first Christian apologetic writing that was interpreted as the rift between Jews and Christians ^{Position of Churches}

Catholic Church

In Catholicism , the replacement theology is the basis on an interpretation of the texts of Paul of Tarsus , are included in the same Patriarch's call and that the salvation of the Church is mysteriously foreshadowed by the output of the chosen people out of the earth easement. That is why the Church can not forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient deigned Alliance, and she thrives on root of the olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild olive branches that are the Gentiles . The Church believes, in fact, that Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles by his cross and himself both had a single . "

Commentary

Bishop Francis Deniau , bishop of Nevers, and president of the Episcopal Committee for Relations with Judaism , said in 2004 :

"Today, the Church has repudiated any" replacement theology "and recognizes the current election of the Jewish people," the people of God of the Old Covenant which has never been revoked "in the words of Pope John Paul II to the Jewish community of Mainz, 17 November 1980. "

But in the Proceedings of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, the doctrine of substitution is again reiterated. Thus it is written in the declaration Nostra Aetate, 4:

Still, the Jewish authorities, with those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ, which was in His passion can not be attributed either indiscriminately to all Jews then alive, nor against the Jews of our time. While the Church is the New People of God, the Jews should not, however, be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from Holy Scripture. All should take care, in catechesis and preaching the word of God, they teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ.

In addition, the Church reproves every persecution against any man, whoever they may be, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions and all manifestations of antisemitism, which, whatever their era and their authors were directed against Jews.

So the Church the "New People" of God: the theology of substitution is, in fact, nothing more. There is, in the Conciliar Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium (the Church), 21 November 1964, the same concept:

Israel according to the flesh, walking in solitude, is already called the Church of God (II Ezra. 13, 1, cf. Number. 20, 4; Deut. 23, 1 et seq.) Of the same new Israel, that of the present era in search of the future city and that does not end (cf. Heb. 13, 14), also called the Church of Christ (cf. Mt 16, 18). For Christ himself has gained at the price of his blood (cf. Acts. 20, 28), filled with His Spirit and provided with means for providing a visible and social union. God called your community of those who look with faith Jesus, the author of salvation, a principle of unity and peace, and he made the Church so that it is for all and everyone the visible sacrament of this unit salvation. The Church must extend to the whole world and into human history, dominates at the same time periods and the boundaries of nations. In the midst of obstacles and tribulations she encounters, it is supported in its work by the help of divine grace that the Lord has promised, so that in the condition of human weakness, it does not leave to be perfectly accurate, but remains a worthy wife of his Lord and is constantly renewed itself under the action of the Holy Spirit, until, by the cross, she reaches the light knows no decline.

liberal Protestant churches

Most churches claiming to Protestantism emerged from the Liberal supercessionism since the ^nineteenth century.

Other theologies are often put forward, such as:

• the theology of the Alliance ;
• the restorationist , which may itself have different variants.

References

See also

Related articles

• Judaism
• Deicide
• First Alliance
• New Covenant
• Interreligious Dialogue
• Nostra Aetate
• Period intertestamental
• Covenant theology
• Mystici Corporis Christi

Bibliography

• Marcel Simon , Verus Israel: Relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire ( 135 - 425 ), ^Boccard, 2nd edition, 1983 , ISBN 978-2701800035
• Tearing. Jews and Christians in the first century. Ekkehard W. Stegemann. 1996. The subject of the Epistle to the Romans and Romans 9.11. Pages 113-125.
• MEANING Journal, No. 290, September 2004 , pp. 441/452. Article by Bishop Francis Deniau , following the issuance of the origin of Christianity.

• Promise. Jean-Marie Lustiger. Speech and silence. 2002. ISBN 2845731493

External Links

• The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible from the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Foreword by Joseph Ratzinger)
• Folder on the site of the Conference of Bishops of France following the issuance of 16 and 17 April 2004 on the "Origin of Christianity"
• Site rivtsion.org Mr. Macina Lapse or irrevocability of the First Covenant in the First Testament? About Formula Mainz
• Jean-Marie Lustiger The Promise. "My eyes ahead of the end of the night to meditate on your promise"
• Rafiq Nahra and Ryvon Krygier, Paul and replacement theology , Akademie, Round Conference "Between Jews and Christians."
• Supercessionism

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