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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... Jews , Guide- lines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Decla- ration Nostra Aetate ( n . 4 ) , December 1 , 1974 . Jewish People Pontifical Biblical Commission , The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian ...
... Jewish people " ( We Remember 1 ) . Finally , in 2002 , by virtue of " Reflections on Covenant and Mission , " Catholics were asked to consider whether Judaism- " the faithful response of the Jewish people to God's irrevocable covenant ...
... Jews familiarly experience God as Father independent of Jesus . • How the history of salvation formulated within traditional Chris- tianity overlooks and distorts the decisive Jewish contribution to God's plan of redemption . How Jews ...
... Jews throughout the world . While most Jews support the existence of the State of Israel as a “ Jewish homeland , ” this does not mean that they imagine that they must take up residence therein as a religious obligation or that they ...
... Jews . Rather , as the Jew- ish scholar Emil Fackenheim reminded his audience during the Sixth National Workshop on Christian - Jewish relations , " it was also the saints and the bishops who preached contempt for Jews . " The Shocking ...
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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 |