The New Christian Zionism : Fresh perspectives on Israel and the land /

Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson... Full description

Main Author: McDermott, Gerald R.
Published: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is the new Christian Zionism? / Gerald McDermott
  • Part I: Theology and history
  • A history of supersessionism: getting the big story wrong / Gerald McDermott
  • A history of Christian Zionism: is Christian Zionism rooted primarily in premillennial dispensationalism? / Gerald McDermott
  • Part II: Theology and the Bible
  • Biblical hermeneutics: how are we to interpret the relation between Tanak and the New Testament on this question? / Craig Blaising
  • Zionism in the Gospel of Matthew: do the people of Israel and the land of Israel persist as abiding concerns for Matthew? / Joel Willitts
  • Zionism in Luke-Acts: do the people of Israel and the land of Israel persist as abiding concerns in Luke's two volumes? / Mark Kinzer
  • Zionism in Pauline literature: does Paul eliminate particularity for Israel and the land in his portrayal of salvation available for all the world? / David Rudolph
  • Part III: Theology and its implications
  • Theology and the churches: mainline Protestant Zionism and anti-Zionism / Mark Tooley
  • Theology and politics: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Zionism / Robert Benne
  • Theology and law: does the modern state of Israel violate its call to justice in the covenant by its relation to international law? / Robert Nicholson
  • Theology and morality: is modern Israel faithful to the moral demands of the covenant in its treatment of minorities? / Shadi Khalloul
  • Part IV: Theology and the future
  • How should the new Christian Zionism proceed? / Darrell Bock
  • Implications and propositions / Gerald McDermott.

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