Focused reading path
The Promise-Plan of God / Israel, the Church & Covenant Identity
Israel, the Church & Covenant Identity
Covenant continuity, Jewish and Gentile identity, Abrahamic promise, and the history of synagogue–church relations.
One promise, Israel, and the nations
How do the promises to Israel relate to the inclusion of the nations in Messiah? This reading path examines covenant continuity, Jewish and Gentile identity, the Abrahamic inheritance, and the historical separation of synagogue and church. The studies argue for a non-supersessionist reading of the promise-plan while distinguishing equal standing in Christ from the erasure of ethnic identity. Historical accounts of the parting of the ways supply context for evaluating later theological assumptions.
Start Here
Reading 1
Begin with the one-people argument
Locate Israel and the nations within the proposed canonical framework.
One People: The Organic Continuity of Israel and the Church within the Promise-Plan of GodReading 2
Examine the New Covenant
Explore the promise of inward renewal and its recipients.
What is the New Covenant?Reading 3
Test the implications for identity
Consider the interpretation of equality and ethnic distinction in Galatians 3:28.
Ethnic Identity in Christ: A Non-Supersessionist Re-Examination of Galatians 3:28 and Pauline EcclesiologyQuestions to Explore
- How are Gentile believers included in promises first addressed to Israel?
- What does covenant continuity mean for Jewish identity and calling?
- How did historical pressures shape the relationship between synagogue and church?
Browse the Readings
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Covenant promise and Gentile inclusion
- One People: The Organic Continuity of Israel and the Church within the Promise-Plan of God
- What is the New Covenant?
- The Covenant of Promise: Abrahamic Lineage, Prophetic Inheritance, and Covenantal Atonement in Christian–Muslim Encounter
- The Abrahamic Gospel: Covenantal Lineage, Typological Atonement, and the Textual Dialectic in Christian–Muslim Polemics
- Paul’s Monotheistic Mission: The Shema as the Theological Engine of Gentile Inclusion within the Promise-Plan of God
Identity and the historical parting of the ways
- Ethnic Identity in Christ: A Non-Supersessionist Re-Examination of Galatians 3:28 and Pauline Ecclesiology
- Defining Messianic Identity
- The Greco-Roman World and the Jewish Sibling Paradigm
- Between the Synagogue and the Church: The Historical Fracture of the Promise-Plan
- The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
Continue with Recent Studies
Explore these additional studies alongside the starting points and grouped readings above.