Salvation is from the Jews (John 4:22): Saving Grace in Judaism and Messianic Hope in ChristianityLiturgical Press, 2007 - 201 pagini Growing up in an ethnic suburb in Cleveland, Aaron Milavec was an impressionable adolescent whose religious and cultural influences made it natural for him to pity, blame, and despise Jews. All of that began to change in 1955 when Mr. Martin, a Jewish merchant, hired Milavec as a stock boy. Milavec's initial anxieties over working for a Jew surprisingly gave way to profound personal admiration. This, in turn, plunged Milavec into a troubling theological dilemma: How could God consign Mr. Martin to eternal hellfire due to his ancestral role in the death of Jesus when it was clear that Mr. Martin would not harm me, a Christian, even in small ways? This book is not for the faint-hearted. Most Christians imagine that the poison of anti-Judaism has been largely eliminated. In contrast, Milavec reveals how this poison has gone underground--disfiguring not only the role of Israel in God's plan of salvation but also horribly twisting the faith, the forgiveness, and the salvation that Christians find through Jesus Christ. This painful realization serves as the necessary first step for our healing. At each step of the way, Milavec's sure hand builds bridges of mutual understanding that enable both Christians and Jews to cross the chasm of distrust and distortion that has infected both church and synagogue over the centuries. In the end, Milavec securely brings his readers to that place where Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity can again be admired as sister religions intimately united to one other in God's drama of salvation. |
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... According to the Pew Research Center , 63 percent of white Evangelicals in the United States hold this view . Only 16 percent of religiously committed Catholics , meanwhile , hold this view . On the other hand , 30 percent of nominal ...
... according to the following refrain : " Thus then the divine jus- tice overtook the Jews in this way for their crimes against Christ " ( Eccl . Hs . 2.5 , 2.6 , 2.7 ) . In this way the Christian imagination became so distorted that it ...
... according to which " The Roman Catholic Church is the only Church of Jesus Christ , " even though this was the constant dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church until Vati- can II . Instead , he showed how the document preferred the ...
... according to the Apostle [ Paul ] , the Jews still remain most dear to God because of their fathers , for he does not repent of the gifts he makes nor of the calls he issues " ( Nostra Aetate 4 ) . If the covenant God made with " their ...
... According to their read- ing of the text , the conversion of the Jews is one of the divinely promised signs that will characterize the end times prior to the return of the Lord . Since the end times have begun , as signaled by the ...
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The Story of Salvation | 57 |
Parting of the Ways | 84 |
Jesus as Messiah | 116 |
The Unsavory Odor of Christian Evangelization | 152 |
Reflections on Covenant and Mission | 173 |
Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 196 |