The God of Israel and Christian Theology, 9780800628833
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Along with this first full-scale critique of Christian supersessionism, Soulen’s own constructive proposal regrasps the narrative unity of Christian identity and the canon through an original and important insight into the divine-human convenant, the election of Israel, and the meaning of history. (Christian)

The God of Israel and Christian Theology

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    10 June 1996

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Summary

With acknowledgment that Christian theology contributed to the persecution and genocide of Jews comes a dilemma: how to excise the cancer without killing the patient? Kendall Soulen shows how important Christian assertionsthe uniqueness of Jesus, the Christian covenant, the finality of salvation in Christhave been formulated in destructive, supersessionist ways not only in the classical period (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus) and early modernity (Kant and Schleiermacher) but even contemporary the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780800628833
ISBN-10:0800628837
Author:R. Kendall Soulen
Publisher:Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Imprint:Augsburg Fortress
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:10 June 1996
Weight:318g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm
About The Author

R. Kendall Soulen

R. Kendall Soulen is professor of systematic theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He has devoted much of his scholarship to showing that Christian faith becomes more authentically Christian as it overcomes its stubborn legacy of anti-Judaism. His books include The God of Israel and Christian Theology (1996) and The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity (2011). Soulen is the chair for theological studies in the Laney Graduate Division of Religion and president of the Society for Post-Supersessionist Theology. He served as the president of the American Theological Society in 2017.

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