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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... future generations . After all , I was assured that Jesus had sent 1. A note on catechisms : Following the Council of Trent , the Roman Catechism was cre- ated in order to provide priests with a comprehensive outline of Catholic ...
... future might be seen by us ( as also by Paul ) as joining themselves with the saving faith of Abraham . If Judaism is not a path of salvation , then , to be consistent , Catho- lics must negate Romans 4 and insist that Abraham could not ...
... 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 tree " ( Rom 11:24 ) would even preclude the ...
... future with God is spoken of as marked by a continued " faithfulness . " Thus the praying church has turned full circle . Before 1969 the Jews were " faithless " and God was being petitioned to bring them to acknowledge Jesus . Since ...
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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 |