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A prominent Catholic theologian argued in a Feb. 19 interview with Zeale News that Catholics can entertain the Zionist position that Jews have a theological claim to the land of Israel while also refusing to give unconditional moral support to the modern Israeli state.
Professor Gavin D’Costa is a professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. He has written extensively on Catholic doctrine and its relationship to Jewish and Zionist thought, including in the 2019 book “Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People after Vatican II” (Oxford University Press). He recently delivered a lecture for Philos Catholic, now calling itself Two Hammers, on Catholicism and Zionism.
Speaking to Zeale’s Stephen Herreid, D’Costa described the “minimalist Catholic Zionism” he advocates for, presenting it as a post-Vatican II approach that rejects both unconditional Christian Zionism and supersessionism — the traditional Catholic belief that the Church is the New Israel and the fulfillment of God’s covenant with the People of God recorded in the Old Testament. ….
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