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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... Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Stan- dard Version Bible , Catholic edition , © 1989 by the Division of Christian Edu- cation of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used with permission . All rights ...
... Scriptures in the Christian Bible , May 24 , 2001 . Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews , Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church ...
... Scriptures ) Old Testament ( Hebrew Scriptures or Tanakh ) parallel ( s ) Thomas Aquinas , Summa Theologica . Translated by the Domini- can Fathers . 2 vols . London : Burns & Oates , 1947 . Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich , eds ...
... Scriptures retain a firm attachment to the priority of Israel in God's plan . • Why Jews object to the messianic character of Jesus and how Chris- tians , in response , are groping toward a more honest assessment of Jesus as Messiah ...
... Scriptures lied when they affirmed that " the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face , as one speaks to a friend " ( Exod 33:11 ; Num 2 : 8 ; Deut 34:10 ; Sir 45 : 5 ) . It would be blasphemy to imagine that Abraham and Sarah did not ...
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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 |