Towards an Anti-Supersessionist Theology: Race, Whiteness, and Covenant.

Supersessionism in the Western Christian theological tradition remains an issue to be remediated. The problem of supersessionism is the problem of Gentile Christians' wrongly viewing themselves as the exclusively favored object of God's desire. This misplaced prioritization of Gentile belonging within the life of Israel's God mirrors dynamics found in Euro-American racism or whiteness. Just as theories of anti-racism are useful for confronting the challenges of whiteness, in this paper I argue for an explicitly anti-supersessionist theology. This theology offers possibilities for deepening an understanding of the covenantal relationships among God, Israel, Jesus Christ, and the Gentile Church. As such, it transcends the binary of supersessionism and post-supersessionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]