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I 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
by jawns 6y ago
I 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.