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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... Aetate ( n . 4 ) , December 1 , 1974 . Jewish People Pontifical Biblical Commission , The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible , May 24 , 2001 . Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the ...
... Aetate 4 ) , appear to be , like the followers of other world religions , " objectively speaking . . . in a gravely deficient situa- tion in comparison with those who , in the Church , have the fullness of the means of salvation ...
... Aetate 4 ) 3. Dr. Eugene Fisher was appointed to his present post as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic - Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) in May of 1977. He succeeded Father ...
... Aetate ( § 4 ) reaffirmed that " Jews remain very dear to God , " this did not prevent official docu- ments after the council from continuing to affirm ( a ) that " the definitive meaning of the election of Israel does not become clear ...
... Aetate 4 ) , then it would seem to follow that God's elec- tion of Israel stands firm independent of Israel's stance regarding Jesus . For Jews , therefore , it would follow that their election , their divinely approved way of life ...
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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 |