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To: EternalVigilance

The author conveniently omits to mention that Marcion was condemned as a heretic by the Catholic bishops. He’s cited here as one of the roots of Replacement Theology, with the implication that he was Catholic.

Marcion was condemned precisely because he wanted to cut off the Jewish heritage. The rest of the Church overwhelmingly chose to keep it. That’s what Origen’s figurative exegesis was all about—all the Fathers of the Church expended great effort to retain the Hebrew Scriptures by reading them through the lens of Christ: fulfillment, not supersession/replacement.

The author of this article tellingly is unable to cite any Catholic sources. But he blows enough words around to give the impression that supersessionism/replacement has an ancient Christian/Catholic pedigree.

It’s a tad disingenuous.


101 posted on 10/30/2010 7:38:31 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.

Hmmm...

Looks to me like he hardly mentions the Catholic Church.

You’re pretty sensitive.


109 posted on 10/30/2010 7:45:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Jefferson: I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves)
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