Replacement Theology

[Fides_et_Ratio]

Okay, I'm not entirely sure what exactly "replacement theology" entails, other than it asserts that the church has 'replaced' the Jews as God's chosen people, or something like that.

It's come up a few times in discussions with Protestants (though, thankfully has never been the subject), but I'd like to know a bit more about what exactly it is, and whether or not Catholicism truly teaches this (as they have asserted), and where I could find it in the Catechism, etc.???

I tried to run a search of phatmass (to see if it was in the reference section) but came up with nothing.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

The Church didn't replace the Jewish people as the Chosen people. Rather, it extended from the Jewish people to everyone and the fullness of salvation is within the Church. The Jewish people are not automatically members of the Church by this, but our Church comes from them. They are still blessed in the eyes of God, though. In a sense, the Jewish people are a prefigurement of the Church and the Church is the fulness of the Jewish Covenants. One could almost say that Catholics are more Jewish than the Jews.

[yiannii]

There was a question asked about this topic on the "Q&A" phorum. Here is the link to the response:

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