Christian Zionism: true friends of Israel?
The Zionist dream, so forcefully articulated by Theodor Herzl in Der Judenstaat in 1896 and a year later at the First Zionist Congress, may actually be attributed to the writings and activities of Christians like Lewis Way, Joseph Wolff and Henry Drummond from as early as the 1820s.
Stephen Sizer
Christian Zionism is born of the conviction that God has a continuing covenantal purpose for the Jewish people, expressed in the literal interpretation of the Bible and demonstrated in the existence of the State of Israel. God's promise to Abraham remains unconditional and eternal. 'To your descendants I give this land. I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God' (Genesis 15.18; 17.8).
