Contents
Introduction
1. Getting the Big Story Wrong
2. Does the New Testament Teach That the Church Is the New
Israel?
3. Those Who Got It Right: A History of Christian Zionism Starting
in the Second Century
4. Looking More Closely at the Old Testament: Salvation for the
World through Israel
5. Looking More Closely at the New Testament: A Future for Both the
People and the Land of Israel
6. Political Objections: What about the Palestinians?
7. Theological Objections: Is the First Covenant Obsolete?
8. If All This Is True, Then What?
9. Six Proposals
Appendix: Covenant and Land in the Old Testament
Indexes
Gerald R. McDermott (PhD, University of Iowa) is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He previously taught at Roanoke College and is an Anglican priest. McDermott is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, including Famous Stutterers, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions?, Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?, World Religions: An Indispensable Introduction, and A Trinitarian Theology of Religions.
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