ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the ways that millenarianism, specifically Moltmann's non-violent, modified form, rejects and moves beyond the idea that the Church replaces Israel in salvation history. Economic supersessionists insist that in the providential ordering of salvation history, God has seen fit to make Israel, including the Jewish people of the contemporary moment, obsolete in light of the new Christian covenant, specifically and inextricably expressed as the Church. Jewish journalist, author, and social commentator Melanie Philips drew the same conclusion after years of studying nuanced relations between Jews and Christians today, when she wrote that the source of much modern-day hatred of the Jews is replacement theology. Moltmann insists that the churches that appear to reject eschatological millenarianism and espouse historical millenarianism, the Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and mainline Protestants, are intolerant of any eschatological hope other than their own, particularly, an alternate messianic hope for Israel.
