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Supersessionism makes supersession into an ideology, or "ism". This ideology is very rarely mentioned by Orthodox writers. Yet it is increasingly discussed by Protestant ones, whose definitions of it vary wildly from the simple belief that Christianity brought "something better" into the world<ref>Rabbi David Novak, The Covenant in Rabbinic Thought, printed in Eugene Korn, Two Faiths, One Covenant p.67</ref> to one where the Church's fulfillment of Israel's role supposedly condemns the Jews as a racial group.<ref>One Covenant of Grace, Committee on Church Doctrine Recommendation No. 2, Presbyterian Church of Canada, 2011. http://presbyterian.ca/wp-content/uploads/referrals_2011_one_covenant_of_grace_study_document_re_engagement_with_jewish_people.pdf</ref>

In 2012 Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Dr Nicolas Abou-Mrad of the St. John of Damascus Theology Institute, and Fr. Demetrios Tonias participated in an ecumenical consultation on Christianity and Judaism, which concluded that "supersession" carries a proper descriptive meaning in the Orthodox tradition, but the term is "problematic when negatively applied vis-à-vis Judaism."<ref>Rev. Dr Shanta Premawardhana, “A Report of the Intra-Christian Consultation on Christian Self-Understanding in Relation to Judaism”, Current Dialogue, Dec. 2012, p. 12. http://www.oikoumene.org/en/what-we-do/current-dialogue-magazine/dialogue-53</ref>