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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... Jesus was personally committed to Judaism ; he trained his disciples to interpret the law of Moses ( Torah ) in anticipation of the kingdom of God that was ready to break into history . At no point did Jesus or his first disciples ...
... Jesus was and always remained a Jew " ( Notes 12 ) , thereby putting an end to the imagined claim that Jesus himself rejected Judaism as a defective religion . In this same document Catholics were also made familiar with the ways in which ...
... Jesus and his Juda- ism . The healing , then , will follow as day follows night . At each step of the way this book ... Jesus . • How the history of salvation formulated within traditional Chris- tianity overlooks and distorts the ...
... Jesus ' own anguished prayer on the cross , " Father , forgive them , for they do not know what they are doing " ( Luke 23:34 ) . Nor did the bishops try to convince us that Jesus died for all our sins and , as a result , " all our sins ...
... Jesus and his followers boldly affirmed : Jesus was and always remained a Jew ; his ministry was delib- erately limited " to the lost sheep of the house of Israel " ( Matt 15:24 ) . Jesus is fully a man of his time and his environment ...
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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 |