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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Supersessionism and Nostra Aetate -- 1. The problem of supersessionism -- Types of supersessionism -- Supersessionist hermeneutics and the Bible -- Supersessionism: a theological problem -- 2. Nostra Aetate and its reception: supersessionism challenged -- The shift to the relation to non-Christian religions -- Nostra Aetate and its reception: the irrevocable call -- Theological tensions after Nostra Aetate -- Part II Millenarianism: a valid part of Church history -- 3. Millenarianism explored -- Millenarianism defined and contextualized -- Revelation 20: an intentionally chiliastic text -- The amillennial interpretation of Revelation 20 is flawed -- Millenarianism in the Gospels and Pauline corpus -- 4. Millenarianism and early Church tradition -- Millenarianism as orthodox eschatology -- Responding to the refutation of chiliastic normativity -- The earliest detractors of chiliasm: Marcion, Gaius, Origen -- 5. A shift in eschatology: the Church becomes the kingdom -- Eusebius (ca. 263-339 C.E.): the Church and the Roman kingdom -- Augustine (354-430 C.E.): the Church and the kingdom of God -- Part III Millenarianism, heresy, and contemporary Catholic theology -- 6. The hermeneutics of heresy -- St. Vincent of Lérins: determining valid doctrine -- 7. Millenarianism: creeds, Ecumenical Councils, and heresy? -- The Apostles' Creed -- An early Council responding to Montanism, not Chiliasm -- Nicaea (325 C.E.) and Rome (382 C.E.) -- Constantinople (381 C.E.): "whose kingdom shall have no end"--Ephesus (431 C.E.): no direct or indirect reference to millenarianism -- 8. Recent magisterial statements on millenarianism -- Pius XII and the declaration against millenarianism