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There's a ton that I agree with, but Taleb is not quite entirely right that Catholic (and other Christian) theology hasn't changed. The biggest change in the di
by hyperpape 6y ago
There's a ton that I agree with, but Taleb is not quite entirely right that Catholic (and other Christian) theology hasn't changed. The biggest change in the direction of tolerance might be the general abandonment of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersessionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersessionism, the doctrine that the covenant between God and the people of Israel had been superceded by Jesus.
You can still maintain the overall point, by arguing that prevailing attitudes drove the theology rather than the other way around. Supercessionism became drastically less popular after seeing the 20th century consequences of anti-semitism, moreso than pure reflection on scripture or anything like that.
- jawns 6y agoI don't think the Catholic Church has abandoned supersessionism, as you say. What it has abandoned is a particular type of supersessionism, one that was fueled, in part, by anti-semetic bias. In this First Things piece by David Novak, he talks about a distinction between "hard" and "soft" supersessionism: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/supersessionism-hard-and-soft https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/supersessionism-... You can see a defense of this soft supersessionism in this piece by the late Avery Cardinal Dulles: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/11/the-covenant-with-israel https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/11/the-covenant-wit...
- hyperpape 6y agoYou're right--I must've misremembered the shift as an outright abandonment and/or conflated abandonment by many non-Catholic theologians with the Catholic church. Frankly, the details are rather baroque.