One New Man
The One New Man podcast is a wide-ranging conversation about Israel, the Jewish people, the Church, and our cultural moment concerning these topics. It is an ongoing conversation between a Messianic Jew, John Myers and a Gentile Christian, Christopher Kuehl. John is the founder of The Israel Story, and an early planter of a Messianic synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel. Chris is the founder of Present Witness. Together, they form the One New Man. You can expect conversations around Christian Zionism, biblical covenants, replacement theology, dispensationalism, covenant theology, church history, difficult verses related to these issues, election, salvation, the Israel / Palestinian conflict, and many other issues. We will also be interacting with arguments and positions all the way back from the church fathers to more modern thinkers like NT Wright and Karl Barth.
One New Man
From Eden To Zion And The End Of All Things ft Dr. Gerald McDermott
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This is a wide ranging, thorough, and deep intellectual conversation I had with Dr. Gerald McDermott, scholar, Anglican priest, and author of dozens of books and papers.
We covered a couple of his books and the implications thereof, including A New History of Redemption, his continuation of Jonathan Edwards' book of a similar name, and The New Christian Zionism.
Dr. McDermott explains how history and theology are inseparable as we look at God's story of redemption for His glory, and then discusses Christian Zionism from many different angles, giving what I think you'll find to be well-reasoned arguments, including a couple of points that I hadn't come across before.
If you're hungry for more truth and understanding about God's plans for the world, for Israel, and for the Jews, this wide-ranging conversation will give you countless threads to explore, and even a challenge at the end: to maintain intellectual and theological humility.
In This Episode:
0:00 Intro
3:18 A New History of Redemption
11:38 Translating the tetragrammaton
15:11 Historical framework
18:06 The Redemption of God
24:51 How Redemption Glorifies God
34:50 The Story Before Time
43:19 God Disinheriting the Nations
47:51 How the Jews and Israel Play A Part In Redemption History
51:12 World Religions Playing a Role In Redemption
53:47 How God Works Through Different Denominations
56:24 The Reformation
59:48 Why Does The Kingdom of God Have To Come Incrementally?
1:02:24 The Church and Israel
1:11:24 The New Christian Zionism
1:16:27 Dispensationalism
1:22:33 Amillenial Theologians and Israel
1:26:27 Is The Modern State of Israel The Same As The Biblical State of Israel?
1:28:46 Covenantal Fidelity
1:33:35 How Should Christians View The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
1:36:05 The Greatest Threat To Christian Zionism
Resources:
A New History of Redemption by Gerald McDermott: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801098548/
The New Christian Zionism by Gerald McDermott: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830851380/
The God of Israel and Christian Theology by Kendall Soulen: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0800628837/
A History of the Work of Redemption by Jonathan Edwards: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0923WHRWF/
Other Books By Dr. McDermott: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gerald-R.-McDermott/author/B001HP188A
- The Israel Story: https://www.theisraelstory.org/
- Present Witness: https://www.presentwitness.org/
- Israel Story on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIsraelStoryApp/
- Present Witness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apresentwitness/
- Chris's Substack: https://christopherkuehl.substack.com/
