Brad East

Brad East is Assistant Professor of Theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.

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Still Supersessionist?

Timothy P. Jackson considers the Shoah not just as a moral or political event, but as a theological one.

By Brad East

November 17, 2021

Books

History

Jewish-Christian Relations

Article

The Specter of Marcion

In the fraught history of Jewish-Christian relations, Protestants and Catholics developed different responses to supercessionism, a legacy that must be confronted

By Brad East

February 13, 2019

Theology

Jewish-Christian Relations

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