Incarnation and Israel: A Supralapsarian Account of Israel’s Chosenness
In its first part, this essay maps various ways in which Christian theology has tried to make sense of the notion of Israel’s election: as simply an expression of Israel’s religious self-consciousness (Friedrich Schleiermacher, Naim Ateek), as serving a larger goal in the divine economy (N.T. Wright...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Modern theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel
/ Israel
/ Incarnation of Jesus Christ
/ Supralapsarismus
/ Substitutionstheorie
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HB Old Testament NBF Christology NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
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| Summary: | In its first part, this essay maps various ways in which Christian theology has tried to make sense of the notion of Israel’s election: as simply an expression of Israel’s religious self-consciousness (Friedrich Schleiermacher, Naim Ateek), as serving a larger goal in the divine economy (N.T. Wright, missional hermeneutics), and as the result of a divine falling in love (Michael Wyschogrod, Jon D. Levenson, R.W.L. Moberly). Finding all these approaches theologically wanting, in its second part the article develops an alternative approach, embedded in a supralapsarian Christology. The third part of the essay refutes the idea that supralapsarian Christology leads to supersessionism (R. Kendall Soulen) and argues that rather the opposite is the case: on the account of Israel’s election offered here, the covenant with Israel cannot be superseded because it is rooted in the very being of the incarnate One himself. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12806 |