Editing Supersessionism (section)

==Types==
{{See also|Biblical law in Christianity|Progressive revelation (Christian)|Marcionism}}
Both Christian and Jewish theologians have identified different types of supersessionism in the Christian reading of the [[Bible]].

R. Kendall Soulen notes three categories of supersessionism identified by Christian theologians: punitive, economic, and structural:{{sfn |Soulen |1996}}
* '''Punitive supersessionism''' is represented by such Christian thinkers as [[Hippolytus of Rome]], [[Origen]], and [[Martin Luther]]. It is the view that [[Judaism's view of Jesus|Jews who reject Jesus]] as the [[Jewish Messiah]] are consequently condemned by God, forfeiting the promises otherwise due to them under the covenants.
* '''Economic supersessionism''' is used in the technical theological sense of function (see [[Economic Trinitarianism|economic Trinity]]). It is the view that the practical purpose of the nation of Israel in God's plan is replaced by the role of the Church. It is represented by writers such as [[Justin Martyr]], [[Augustine]], and [[Karl Barth|Barth]].
* '''Structural supersessionism''' is Soulen's term for the ''[[de facto]]'' marginalization of the [[Old Testament]] as normative for Christian thought. In his words, "Structural supersessionism refers to the narrative logic of the standard model whereby it renders the Hebrew Scriptures largely indecisive for shaping Christian convictions about how God's works as Consummator and Redeemer engage humankind in universal and enduring ways."{{sfn |Soulen |1996 |p=181}} Soulen's terminology is used by Craig A. Blaising, in "The Future of Israel as a Theological Question".<ref name="Ref_h">''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' '''44''' (2001): 442.</ref>

These three views are neither mutually exclusive, nor logically dependent, and it is possible to hold all of them or any one with or without the others.{{sfn |Soulen |1996}} The work of Matthew Tapie attempts a further clarification of the language of supersessionism in modern theology that Peter Ochs has called "the clearest teaching on supersessionism in modern scholarship." Tapie argued that Soulen's view of economic supersessionism shares important similarities with those of Jules Isaac's thought (the French-Jewish historian well known for his identification of "the teaching of contempt" in the Christian tradition) and can ultimately be traced to the medieval concept of the "cessation of the law" – the idea that Jewish observance of the ceremonial law (Sabbath, circumcision, and dietary laws) ceases to have a positive significance for Jews after the passion of Christ. According to Soulen, Christians today often repudiate supersessionism but they do not always carefully examine just what that is supposed to mean. Soulen thinks Tapie's work is a remedy to this situation.<ref name="Ref_g-1">{{Cite book |last=Tapie |first=Matthew |url=https://www.academia.edu/8082908 |title=Aquinas on Israel and the Church: A Study of the Question of Supersessionism in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas |date=2014-08-12}}</ref>