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Article · Israel and the ChurchHistorical study · Apologetics · Biblical discernment

How Supersessionism Took Root in the Early Church

A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension

…e extended into the claim that the Church alone inherited Israel's identity and promises. Justin Martyr calls Christians the true Israel Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho, written in the second century, is one of the clearest early witnesses. Justin argues at length that Chris…

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Article · Christian DoctrinePersonal reflection · Historical theology · Theological analysis · Primary-source study

Standing at the Door

An unrequited love for the historic Church

…ete millennial system, but its horizon is unmistakably future, apocalyptic and expectant. Justin Martyr went further. In his Dialogue with Trypho, he confessed a bodily resurrection followed by a thousand years in a rebuilt Jerusalem, while candidly acknowledging that some genuin…

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