Fordham University Professor Magda Teter’s new book titled “Christian Supremacy” came out today. The book provides “a profound reckoning with history that traces the roots of the modern rejection of Jewish and Black equality to an enduring Christian heritage of exclusion, intolerance, and persecution,” according to its description.

“The ideology espoused by white supremacists in the US and in Europe is rooted in Christian ideas of social and religious hierarchy,” Professor Teter (pictured) wrote in the book, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “These ideas developed, gradually, first in the Mediterranean and Europe in respect to Jews and then in respect to people of color in European colonies and in the US, before returning transformed back to Europe.”

Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported:

In the book, subtitled “Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism,” she traces this idea from the writings of the early church fathers like Paul the Apostle, though centuries of Catholic and Protestant debates over the status of Jews in Europe, to the hardening of racist attitudes with the rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

[I’ll never cease to be amazed at Catholic universities that employ professors who insist on contradicting doctrine and defaming the faith. Even with that aside, slagging the greatest theologian of the early church is truly a step beyond. Does Fordham want to be a Catholic university, or a university that used to be Catholic? I mean, either choice is defensible, but pick one and stick with it. — Ed]