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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... divine forgiveness inde- pendent of Jesus . How the theology of the atoning death of Jesus puts Jews and Judaism at risk . • When and why the church broke its ties with Judaism . How to challenge and replace superficial myths regarding ...
... divine retribution " became the standard story line Christians used in analyzing the fate of the Jewish people . Eusebius , the father of church history , established this pattern in the early fourth century when he took it upon himself ...
... divine grace . This respect and love - goes in a special way to the Jewish community to which Christians are closely related through Christ himself and the revealed word of God in the Old Testament.11 Cardinal Ratzinger must have read ...
... divine revelation to the ef- fect that some future generation of Jews will accept the Gospel and become Christians . The very notion that Jews who are disobedient now will , in the end - times , “ be grafted back into their own olive ...
... divine plan of salvation for Israel . One final point : according to Acts , Paul identifies Israel as having the divinely mandated mission to be " light for the Gentiles " ( Acts 13:47 , citing Isa 49 : 6 ) . If so , it follows that ...
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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 |