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What is the relationship between the Church and Israel? And how does that influence our understanding of the Old Testament? In Heirs of Promise, P. Chase Sears answers these questions by taking a biblical-theological approach to the book of Romans. He argues that Paul views the Church as the new Israel—not a replacement of Israel, but rather the continuation of Israel reconstituted in Christ. As...

non-dispensationalists from seeing a future salvation for ethnic Israel (Rom 9–11).15 Nevertheless, these non-dispensationalists who advocate a future salvation for Israel do so differently from progressive dispensationalists, who expect Israel to be “restored to a place of prominence among the nations … [with a] rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.”16 This difference brings to light what is really at the heart of the debate. The current discussion is not whether the Church has replaced Israel; non-dispensationalists
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