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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... comes from Christ ; it is the result of his sacrifice and is communicated by the Holy Spirit . ( Dominus Jesus 21 ) The foundational assumption built into Dominus Jesus is that the for- giveness of sins depends , at all times and in all ...
... comes to the world religions other than Judaism , however , Dominus Jesus is very clear . Given the assumption , as noted above , that Jesus ' death on the cross is the universal means of salvation , Cardinal Ratzinger cannot imagine ...
... comes by faith both before and after circumcision . In this case , however , the efficacious faith of Abraham was surely not the acceptance of the creed of the Catholic Church but , following upon the root meaning of " faith " ( pistis ) ...
... comes to Gentiles only if and when they are grafted onto the " rich root of the olive tree " ( Rom 11:17 ) . This olive tree that the Lord has planted and nurtured is clearly Israel . The natural branches that have been pruned are not ...
... comes . The Vatican , for its part , has specifically kept itself free of any indi- cation that the countdown for the last days has begun . Moreover , the Vatican has refrained from setting up programs in Israel directed toward 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 |