Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.