Why There Will Not Be a Mass Conversion of the Jews: A Critique of: “If You Believed Moses”

The place of the Jewish people in salvation history is one of the most misunderstood questions in Catholic theology today, and the confusion runs from the status of the Old Covenant to the widely repeated idea of a mass conversion of the Jews in the last days. In this study, Robert Sungenis engages the argument of the essay If You Believed Moses and shows how the Jewish people belong to the whole story of salvation, not only to its end.

Since I came back to the Catholic Church and not having been properly catechized before my time as an atheist, it was quite a challenge to find a reliable teacher and defender of the Catholic faith in the mid-2000s. That changed when I discovered the work of Robert Sungenis and Catholic Apologetics International. Dr. Sungenis tackled many of the confusing issues that other popular Catholic authors and apologists did not, for whatever reasons. Some of the most controversial topics of those days, and in many ways still linger today, perhaps even more so, is the issue of the status of the Old Covenant, and the confusing opinions of modern theologians at odds with the classical Catholic view of supersessionism, as well as the idea of the mass conversion of the Jews during the end times. You would think that a traditional author, formed in the ways of classical theology, such as Father Mawdsley, would be on the same page as this book you now have before you, but he isn't. Let Robert Sungenis show us how the Jews play a part in the whole story of salvation, not just the end times. (Laurence Gonzaga, MA, Adjunct Professor of Child Development and Psychology, Chaffey College, California)