History of Christianity Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Relations with Jews==== In the fourth century, [[Augustine of Hippo]] argued against the persecution of the Jewish people. A relative peace existed between Jews and Christians until the thirteenth century.{{sfn|Abulafia|2002|p=xii}}{{sfn|Bachrach|1977|p=3}} Significant Jewish communities existed throughout the Christian Roman empire, and attitudes varied in different areas.{{sfn|Stroumsa|2007|p=abstract}} Jews and Christians were both religious minorities claiming the same inheritance, and competing in a direct and sometimes violent clash.{{sfn|Stroumsa|2007|p=abstract}} Although anti-Semitic violence erupted occasionally, attacks on Jews by mobs, local leaders and lower level clergy were carried out without the support of church leaders who generally followed Augustine's teachings.{{sfn|Cohen|1998|pp=78β80}}{{sfn|Roth|1994|pp=1β17}} Sometime before the fifth century, the theology of [[supersessionism]] emerged, claiming that Christianity had displaced Judaism as God's chosen people.{{sfn|Tapie|2017|p=3}} Supersessionism was not an official or universally held doctrine, but replacement theology has been part of Christian thought through much of history.{{sfn|Aguzzi|2017|pp=xi, 3, 5, 12, 25, 133}}{{sfn|Vlach|2010|p=27}} Many attribute the emergence of [[antisemitism]] to this doctrine while others make a distinction between supersessionism and modern anti-Semitism.{{sfn|Kim|2006|pp=2,4, 8β9}}{{sfn|Gerdmar|2009|p=25}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page