Mary Hess, PhD

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Luther Seminary
2481 Como Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
651-641-3232
mhess@luthersem.edu

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Engaging Christian supersessionism

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Engaging supersessionism

There are many useful resources around for dealing with the painful issues that arise from Christian supersessionism. Here are just a few I found worth pondering:

Kendall Soulen's work and the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies

A critique of the supersessionism present in Gil Baillie's Violence Unveiled

Engagement with Lutheran statements (the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies)

The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College

Rabbi Dow Marmur's presentation on learning about Jesus from the Lutherans in Sweden

Mary Boys' searching meditation on whether a symbol betrayed and be reclaimed (the cross)

But what if I had said...