To Matthew Burdette, the progressive anti-Semitism that has become so evident over the past year resembles nothing more than the ancient Christian idea of supersessionism. This doctrine, rejected in modern times by the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations, teaches that the Jews were chosen by God but lost their status with the arrival of Jesus, having been superseded by the church (in the sense of the collective body of believing Christians). Burdette writes:
Liberal progressivism is the product of a supersessionist interpretation of Christianity: it is an embrace of universalism and a rejection of particularity. It can tolerate difference only as long as none of the differences matter.
That God identifies himself as the God of Israel strikes [supersessionist] Christians as an intellectual embarrassment. It is untenable to imagine that the God of all creation should be radically identified with the concrete realities of human history. . . .
In order to avoid facing this contradiction, the supersessionist blames Israel: they cling to their special status, refusing to be one of us. Of course they have a place here, were they only willing to let go of their claim to be God’s covenant people.
But the result of this runaway universalism is exclusion: to the supersessionist, in Burdette’s words, “God is understood to be the God of all by being the God of all but the Jews.”
Read more on First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/10/progressive-supersessionism