Israel and the Church

The relationship of Israel to the New Testament Church has always been a great theological battleground, and a challenging topic among Christians since the early days of the church. On the one hand some reformed Theologians see literal Israel as virtually swallowed up or displaced by the church or spiritual Israel. On the other hand, dispensationalists regard Israel and the Church as two eternally separate entities with which God deals in different ways. This papers aim is to present an ecclesiological argument regarding the topic of the "Church and Israel."

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Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, , language: English, abstract: The relationship of Israel to the New Testament Church has always been a great theological battleground, and a challenging topic among Christians since the early days of the church. On the one hand some reformed Theologians see literal Israel as virtually swallowed up or displaced by the church or spiritual Israel. On the other hand, dispensationalists regard Israel and the Church as two eternally separate entities with which God deals in different ways. This papers aim is to present an ecclesiological argument regarding the topic of the "Church and Israel."