St Augustin'e Replacement Theory

[Guest yinekka]

I post on an Australian 'Catholic' discussion board and an anti Catholic 'Catholic' posted that St Augustine's Replacement Theory or Supersessionism, as found in City of God has been the basis for the Church's tradition of antisemitism down the centuries.! I can't reply because I have never heard of this theory.

Can somebody help me out please

[BLAZEr]

Supersessionism is the traditional Christian belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism, and therefore that Jews who deny that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah fall short of their calling as God's Chosen people. Thus, according to supersessionism, the Jews are supposedly either, no longer considered to be God's Chosen people or, their proper calling is frustrated pending their acceptance of Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah.

The best place to find what the church teaches about our relationship with the Jews can be found in the Vatican II document [url="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html"]NOSTRA AETATE[/url]