Supersessionism

Supersessionism, also called replacement theology or fulfillment theology, is the idea that one religion stops being true once another religion comes to replaceTake the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use). Oxford Languages. it.

For instance, supersessionist Christianity believes that Judaism was true once, but because the Jews rejected Jesus they stopped being the Chosen People, and the New Testament and a faith-based religion replaced Jewish Law. Islamic superssionism also believes that God gave the Torah alike to the Israelites at Mount Sinai but that the Quran ultimately replaced it.

Antisemitism

Christianity

Rabbinic Jews view supersessionism as antisemitic. It laid the groundwork for the two millennia of Christian antisemitism and persecution of Jews that peaked in the Holocaust. Supersessionism is no longer backed by mainstream churches, reportedly including the Vatican, 



  which have switched the focus to Christian–Jewish reconciliation. Some Christians endorse the dual-covenant theology (DCT) which holds that the Old Covenant between Jews and God is eternal, exempting Jews from the need of Christian conversion for receiving salvation.

Christian Identity movement

A similar, or somewhat overlapping, Christian movement that upholds supersessionism is the Christian Identity (CI) movement, whose followers believe that White people to be the "real" descendants of ancient Israelites with whom God have a covenant. 



  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) estimated in 2023 that the CI movement had 10 active groups in the United States.The 10 active groups of the CI movement in 2023 are as follows (place names in brackets are their headquarters' locations):
 Assembly of Christian Israelites (Milford, Ohio)
 Christogenea (Panama City Beach, Florida)
 Church of Israel  (Schell City, Missouri)
 Covenant People’s Ministry (Brooks, Georgia)
 Euro Folk Radio (Chicago, Illinois)
 Fellowship of God’s Covenant People (Union, Kentucky)
 Kingdom Identity Ministries (Harrison, Arkansas)
 Mission to Israel Ministries (Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
 Sacred Truth Publishing and Ministries (Mountain City, Tennessee)
 Scriptures for America Worldwide Ministries (Laporte, Colorado)

Related pages

 Society of Saint Pius X
 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
 Roman Catholics and antisemitism in the 21st century

Other websites

 Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries
 12 Anti-Semitic Radical Traditionalist Catholic Groups
 Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
 The Evil of Replacement Theology: The Historical Abuse of the Jews by the Church
 The Building of a Wall of Separation between New Testament Theology and Its Jewish Roots/Context: A Consideration of Early Church History and a Call for Re-Examination for 21st Century Everyday Theological Reality

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