Editing Supersessionism (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''supersessionism'' comes from the English verb ''to supersede'', from the Latin verb {{Lang|la|sedeo, sedere, sedi, sessum}}, "to sit",<ref>Cassell's Latin Dictionary</ref> plus ''super'', "upon". It thus signifies one thing being replaced or supplanted by another.<ref>Collins Dictionary of the English Language</ref>

Throughout Church history, many Christian theologians saw the New Covenant in Christ as a replacement for the Mosaic Covenant<ref>[[Charlotte Fonrobert|Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva]].  "Jewish Christians, Judaizers, and Christian Anti-Judaism." ''A People's History of Christianity, Volume 2: Late Ancient Christianity''.  Ed.  Virginia Burrus.  Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2005.</ref> and the Church as the new [[people of God]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Christians and Jews: Starting Over, Why the Real Dialogue Has Just Begun |url=http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/johnson.htm |magazine=Commonweal|last=Johnson|first=Luke Timothy|date=January 31, 2003}}</ref> The word ''supersession'' is used by [[Sydney Thelwall]] in the title of chapter three of his 1870 translation of [[Tertullian]]'s ''An Answer to the Jews''.{{sfn|Tertullian}}