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Part Seven My stated intention in these posts is to try to settle whether or not it is proper to speak in terms of theologies of supercessionism or replacement theology.  It is not my design to argue for the opposite view (which I have done many times before).  I am coming towards the end of… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.8) →

Part Six Gary Burge: Replacement Theologian The name of Gary Burge  of Wheaton College is familiar to many Christians who teach eschatology that includes the restoration of the remnant of the nation of Israel, but not for positive reasons. His positions on Israel, fueled in large part by his associations with the anti-Israel group Kairos USA,… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.7) →

Part Five I finished the last installment by stating that in viewing the Bible from a certain redemptive-historical perspective (a common one I might add), the only conclusion that one can come to is that the church has always existed, and that therefore elect Israel in the OT was the church of the OT to… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt. 6) →

Part Four Incipient Supercessionsm So far I have tried to show that replacement theology exists and that it is a coinage of at least some covenant theologians, and also that it can take the shape either of direct replacementism (i.e. the church replaces Israel), or else conceptual replacementism (aspects of Israel’s promises are superseded by… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.5) →

Part Three A Little More on the Reality of ‘Replacementism’ Theologian R. Kendall Soulen opens his book about supercessionism in church history with an explanation of what supercessionism is: According to this teaching, God chose the Jewish people after the fall of Adam in order to prepare the world for the coming of Jesus Christ,… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.4) →

Part Two Replacement of Concepts? In the book The Meaning of the Millennium (ed. Robert G. Clouse), the well known postmillennial scholar Loraine Boettner said, The land of Palestine…was given to Abraham and his seed “for an everlasting possession” (Gen. 17:8).  But the same thing is said of the perpetual duration of the priesthood of… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.3) →

Part One It’s a Real Thing That replacement theology actually exists should be beyond dispute.  In a well known admission, the esteemed NT scholar C.E.B. Cranfield wrote, the assumption that the Church has simply replaced Israel as the people of God is extremely common. . . . And I confess with shame to having also… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it Wrong to Use the Term? (Pt.2) →

Recently I have been reminded of the Reformed CT community’s aversion to the label of supercessionism, or worse, replacement theology.  In the last decade or so particularly I have read repeated disavowals of this term from covenant theologians.  Not wanting to misrepresent or smear brethren with whom I disagree, I have to say that I… Continue reading Replacement Theology: Is it wrong to use the term? (pt.1) →