Christian Zionism

It overlaps with, but is distinct from, the nineteenth century movement for the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land , which had both religiously and politically motivated supporters. The term Christian Zionism was popularized in the mid-twentieth century. Prior to that time the common term was Restorationism . Some Christian Zionists believe that the "ingathering" of Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus. This belief is primarily, though not exclusively, associated with Christian Dispensationalism . The idea that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christian, as a means fulfilling a Biblical prophecy has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation. . Many Christian Zionists believe that the people of Israel remain part of the chosen people of God, see also Dual-covenant theology , along with the ingrafted Gentile Christians Romans 11:17–24 . This has the added effect of turning Christian Zionists into supporters of Jewish Zionism .

( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Lord Shaftesbury 's "Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for the restoration of the Jews to Palestine", published in the Colonial Times , in 1841 Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land , and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy . The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, superseding Christian Restorationism . Hippolytus and Irenaeus foresaw a Jewish return from exile, despite their unbelief in Jesus. Traditional Catholic thought did not consider Zionism in any form and Christian advocacy of the restoration of the Jews arose following the Protestant Reformation . A contemporary Israeli historian suggests that evangelical Christian Zionists of the 1840s "passed this notion on to Jewish circles". Some Christian Zionists believe that the gathering of the Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus. This belief is primarily, although not exclusively, associated with Dispensationalism . The idea that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christians, as a means of fulfilling a Biblical prophecy has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation. Many Christian Zionists believe that the people of Israel remain part of the chosen people of God, along with the "ingrafted" Gentile Christians. HORNSTRA: "Two things, not one: Restorationism and Christian Zionism are two terms, and we are indeed speaking of two things here, not just one." Proceedings of the ... World Congress of Jewish Studies: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1993: "Once aroused, American enthusiasm for the Restoration of the Jews to Israel would prove more powerful, because more vital and more broadly based in popular Evangelical Christianity, than English Restorationism." Hippolytus, Romanus (c. 202 AD). Israel a history, translated from Hebrew by Anthony Berris .

A belief among some Christians that Jews should be returned to the Holy Land Lord Shaftesbury 's "Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for the restoration of the Jews to Palestine", published in the Colonial Times , in 1841 Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 were in accordance with Bible prophecy . The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, superseding Christian Restorationism . However, Christian advocacy grew after the Protestant Reformation in support of the restoration of the Jews and has its roots "in seventeenth century England". Contemporary Israeli historian Anita Shapira suggests that evangelical Christian Zionists in England of the 1840s "passed this notion on to Jewish circles", while Jewish nationalism in the early 19th century was widely regarded with hostility by British Jews. Some Christian Zionists believe that the gathering of the Jews in Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus . The idea has been common in Protestant circles since the Reformation that Christians should actively support a Jewish return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to be encouraged to become Christians as a means of fulfilling Biblical prophecy. The Zionist idea itself has its organic roots deep within the European imperialist movement. […] England of the seventeenth century was, in Carlyle's own words, an England of 'awful devout Puritanism'. [Note: Thomas Carlyle , Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (Boston, 1884), 1:32] Puritanism meant the invasion of Hebraism as transmitted through the Old Testament, but distorted by the effort to apply the ethics, laws and manners of the Old Testament Hebrew people, a people that lived in the Middle East more than two thousand years earlier, to post-Renaissance England. [Note: In the words of Matthew Arnold , 'Puritanism was a revival of the Hebraic spirit in reaction to the Hellenic spirit that had animated the immediately preceding period of the Renaissance.' See Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (London, 1869), chap. 4] […] Palestine had up until then been remembered as the Christian Holy Land, unfortunately lost to Islam. But in seventeenth century England it came to be regarded as the homeland of the Jews, whose return to Palestine was, according to Old Testament prophecies, inevitable for the coming of the Second Advent of Christ . · Samman, Khaldoun (2015). Clash of Modernities: The Making and Unmaking of the New Jew, Turk, and Arab and the Islamist Challenge . Long before the arrival of Theodor Herzl and other prominent Jewish nationalists, as Regina Sharif has so persuasively argued, there had already existed a significant non-Jewish Zionist movement within Europe. […] [W]hen an influential U.S. evangelist named William E. Blackstone learned upon his visit to Palestine in 1889 that Herzl had been considering Uganda and Argentina as possible sites for the Jewish homeland […] [i]mmediately, he sent Herzl a Bible, 'marking every passage which referred to Palestine, with instructions that it alone was to be the site of the Jewish State. ' Shapira, Anita (2014). Israel: A History (illustrated, reprint). [T]he idea of the Jews returning to their ancient homeland as the first step to world redemption seems to have originated among a specific group of evangelical English Protestants that flourished in England in the 1840s; they passed this notion on to Jewish circles.

Belief among some Christians that Jews should be returned to the Holy Land For Christians who belong to Zionist denominations in southern Africa, see Zionist churches . "Memorandum to Protestant Monarchs of Europe for the restoration of the Jews to Palestine " (1841, Colonial Times ) Christian Zionism is an ideology that, in a Christian context , espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land . Likewise, it holds that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was in accordance with Bible prophecy : that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Levant — the eschatological " Gathering of Israel " — is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ . The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, in place of Christian restorationism , as proponents of the ideology rallied behind Zionists in support of a Jewish national homeland . Advocacy on the part of Christians for a Jewish restoration grew after the Reformation , and is rooted in 17th-century England . Contemporary Israeli historian Anita Shapira suggests that England's Zionist evangelical Christians "passed this notion on to Jewish circles" around the 1840s, while Jewish nationalism in the early 19th century was largely met with hostility from British Jews . Christian pro-Zionist ideals have generally been common among Protestants since the Reformation. While supporting a mass Jewish return to the Land of Israel , Christian Zionism asserts a parallel idea that the returnees ought to be encouraged to reject Judaism and adopt Christianity as a means of fulfilling biblical prophecies. Polling has suggested a trend of widespread distrust among Jews towards the motives of Christian Zionists with regard to their particular pro-Jewish sentiment and their support for the Jewish state . The Zionist idea itself has its organic roots deep within the European imperialist movement. [...] England of the seventeenth century was, in Carlyle's own words, an England of 'awful devout Puritanism'. [Note: Thomas Carlyle , Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (Boston, 1884), 1:32] Puritanism meant the invasion of Hebraism as transmitted through the Old Testament, but distorted by the effort to apply the ethics, laws and manners of the Old Testament Hebrew people, a people that lived in the Middle East more than two thousand years earlier, to post-Renaissance England. [Note: In the words of Matthew Arnold , 'Puritanism was a revival of the Hebraic spirit in reaction to the Hellenic spirit that had animated the immediately preceding period of the Renaissance.' See Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (London, 1869), chap. 4] [...] Palestine had up until then been remembered as the Christian Holy Land, unfortunately lost to Islam. But in seventeenth century England it came to be regarded as the homeland of the Jews, whose return to Palestine was, according to Old Testament prophecies, inevitable for the coming of the Second Advent of Christ . · Samman, Khaldoun (2015). Clash of Modernities: The Making and Unmaking of the New Jew, Turk, and Arab and the Islamist Challenge . Long before the arrival of Theodor Herzl and other prominent Jewish nationalists, as Regina Sharif has so persuasively argued, there had already existed a significant non-Jewish Zionist movement within Europe. [...] [W]hen an influential U.S. evangelist named William E. Israel: A History (illustrated, reprint). [T]he idea of the Jews returning to their ancient homeland as the first step to world redemption seems to have originated among a specific group of evangelical English Protestants that flourished in England in the 1840s; they passed this notion on to Jewish circles. The Question of Palestine: British-Jewish-Arab Relations, 1914–1918 (reprint). Bible-believing Christians are the last people whom Jews expect to love, defend, and even idealize them. Polls have shown just how much the Jewish community distrusts them. In 2004, when asked to give a "thermometer rating" of their feelings towards groups of people . . . Jews gave evangelicals a frigid average rating of twenty four degrees. More than one third of them (37%) rated evangelicals at 'zero'.'

Political and religious ideology For Christians who belong to Zionist denominations in southern Africa, see Zionist churches . Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context , espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land . Likewise, it holds that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was in accordance with biblical prophecies transmitted through the Old Testament : that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Levant —the eschatological " Gathering of Israel "—is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ . The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, in place of Christian restorationism , as proponents of the ideology rallied behind Zionists in support of a Jewish national homeland . An expectation of Jewish restoration among Christians is rooted in 17th-century English Puritan thought. Contemporary Israeli historian Anita Shapira suggests that England's Zionist Evangelical Protestants "passed this notion on to Jewish circles" around the 1840s, while Jewish nationalism in the early 19th century was largely met with hostility from British Jews . Christian pro-Zionist ideals emerged among the Puritans in the 16th and 17th centuries. While supporting a mass Jewish return to the Land of Israel , Christian Zionism asserts a parallel idea that the returnees ought to be encouraged to reject Judaism and adopt Christianity as a means of fulfilling biblical prophecies . Polling and academic research have suggested a trend of widespread distrust among Jews towards the motives of Evangelical Protestants, who have been promoting support for the State of Israel and evangelizing the Jews at the same time. "The New Christian Right's relations with Israel and with the American Jews: the mid-1970s onward" . The Jews have cause to worry because Evangelicals are active on both fronts, promoting support for the State of Israel, and evangelizing the Jews at the same time. While the Israeli government eagerly accepts public support of Evangelicals and courts the leaders of the New Christian Right , many Jews bitterly condemn Christian proselytism and try their best to restrict the activities of missionaries in Israel. Jews for Jesus and other Christian Jewish groups in Israel have become especially effective in evangelizing, often with the support of foreign Evangelicals. It is not surprising that Jewish leaders, both in the United States and Israel , react strongly to "Jews for Jesus" and the whole "Messianic Jewish" movement , whose concern is to promote awareness among the Jews as to God's real plans for humanity and the need to accept Jesus as a Savior . In this respect, Gershom Gorenberg lamented the fact that "people who see Israel through the lens of Endtimes prophecy are questionable allies, whose support should be elicited only in the last resort. In the long run, their apocalyptic agenda has no room for Israel as a normal country." Sharif, Regina (1983). The Zionist idea itself has its organic roots deep within the European imperialist movement . [...] England of the seventeenth century was, in Carlyle's own words, an England of 'awful devout Puritanism '. [Note: Thomas Carlyle , Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (Boston, 1884), 1:32] Puritanism meant the invasion of Hebraism as transmitted through the Old Testament , but distorted by the effort to apply the ethics, laws and manners of the Old Testament Hebrew people , a people that lived in the Middle East more than two thousand years earlier, to post-Renaissance England . [Note: In the words of Matthew Arnold , 'Puritanism was a revival of the Hebraic spirit in reaction to the Hellenic spirit that had animated the immediately preceding period of the Renaissance.' See Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (London, 1869), chap. 4] [...] Palestine had up until then been remembered as the Christian Holy Land , unfortunately lost to Islam . But in seventeenth century England it came to be regarded as the homeland of the Jews , whose return to Palestine was, according to Old Testament prophecies, inevitable for the coming of the Second Advent of Christ . · Samman, Khaldoun (2015). Clash of Modernities: The Making and Unmaking of the New Jew, Turk, and Arab and the Islamist Challenge . Long before the arrival of Theodor Herzl and other prominent Jewish nationalists, as Regina Sharif has so persuasively argued, there had already existed a significant non-Jewish Zionist movement within Europe . [...] [W]hen an influential U.S. evangelist named William E. In their thought physical Israel continued to have a place in God's plan of salvation, due to His covenantal faithfulness. Consequently, probably beginning with Thomas Brightman, many Puritans expected that the Jews would return to their old geographical habitat in the Middle East. Later Puritans, like Samuel Rutherford, Joseph Mede, and Robert Maton, expected reconciliation of Israel with Christ and the flourishing of the Church after Christ's return. Israel: A History (illustrated, reprint). [T]he idea of the Jews returning to their ancient homeland as the first step to world redemption seems to have originated among a specific group of evangelical English Protestants that flourished in England in the 1840s; they passed this notion on to Jewish circles. The Question of Palestine: British-Jewish-Arab Relations, 1914–1918 (reprint). Bible-believing Christians are the last people whom Jews expect to love, defend, and even idealize them. Polls have shown just how much the Jewish community distrusts them. In 2004, when asked to give a 'thermometer rating' of their feelings towards groups of people... Jews gave evangelicals a frigid average rating of twenty-four degrees. More than one-third of them (37%) rated evangelicals at zero!"