Christian Zionism is not Catholic theology. It is an evangelical import.
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Christian Zionism is not Catholic theology. It is an evangelical import.
It entered through American media in the 1990s and smuggled dispensationalism into Catholic minds. It assigns exclusive, ongoing covenantal status to the modern State of Israel.
That is not the teaching of the Church.
If your Catholic parents or grandparents were watching the 700 Club and similar programs, they were being catechized outside the Church. Not maliciously, but effectively. Evangelical eschatology filled the vacuum left by weak 1990s Catholic formation.
The Jewish people are beloved because God bound Himself to them in covenant and because from them, according to the flesh, came the Christ. That election is real. It belongs to God’s providence and is not revoked.
But that covenant was always ordered to fulfillment in the Messiah. It reaches its completion in the New Covenant established in His Blood. That covenant is definitive. There is no parallel covenant and no salvific order apart from Christ.
The Church is the Body of Christ, the sacramental reality of the New Covenant. Jew and Gentile enter on the same terms, through faith and baptism. Saint Paul speaks of one olive tree, not two.
The modern State of Israel is a nation. It is not the covenant. It is not sacramental. It carries no intrinsic theological mandate. Like every state, it stands under moral law.
The Jews are special because Christ took flesh from them. That is a fact of history, not an ongoing theological hierarchy.
The covenant reaches its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Outside of Him there is no covenantal life, no parallel promise, no separate path. The Church is the New Covenant in His Blood. She is the locus of salvation.
Ethnicity does not determine grace. Christ does.
One Lord. One faith. One baptism, in Jesus Christ.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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