ABSTRACT

Supersessionism, though active in numerous writings and practices in the Christian tradition, is a phenomenon and theological construct that only recently has been studied in-depth and parsed out in its various forms. Post-supersessionist theology came to the fore in Christian studies through the advent of two-covenant theology, a thought process inspired by the Jewish theologian and philosopher Franz Rosenzweig. Christianity offers a covenant relationship to God for Gentiles through Jesus the Christ. For Kant, the Christian religion is thoroughly about the moral law and its universal claim concerning rational creatures. The Jewish- Christian link that existed prior to the Enlightenment, based primarily on the incontrovertible connection between Christianity and the God of Israel. The primary theological question raised by punitive supersessionism has to do with God's faithfulness to the Jewish people up until the time of Christ.