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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... Dialogue with Trypho Clement of Alexandria , Stromateis 3. Church Documents Guidelines Notes Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews , Guide- lines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Decla- ration Nostra Aetate ( n ...
... dialogues between Jews and Christians have emerged nearly everywhere . After nineteen hundred years , Christians and Jews are again listening attentively to each other with respect . The painful topics that had been brushed under the ...
... Dialogue between Jews and Christians invariably reaches the point where events of the Middle East enter into the discussion . At this point , it is all the more urgent to recognize that the state of Israel is not to be equated with the ...
... dialogue on the grounds of " our union with the faith of Abraham , but also the reality of Jesus Christ , in whom the faith of Abraham finds its fulfillment . " Ratzinger then immediately used Edith Stein , a Carmelite nun who had ...
... dialogue with Jews belonged to a unique category because the Jewish faith " for us is not another religion , but the founda- tion of our faith . " 12 It is for this reason that , when Ratzinger affirmed in Dominus Jesus that " with 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 |