Israel and the Church (II)

November 10th, 2009 @

My friend David Nyström has commented (see comment) on my previous post on Israel and the Church, and I think his question is so important that I put the answer into an own post. However, his question is a difficult one. David writes about supersessionism, and adds: I’m also not very convinced by its most [...]

Israel and the Church (I)

November 7th, 2009 @

In his book The Body of Faith, a fascinating account of classical Judaism in the clothes of modern theological and philosophical discourse, the Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod writes: The circumcised body of Israel is the […] carnal presence through which the redemption makes its way in history. Salvation is of the Jews because the flesh [...]