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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... hands of a single Jew . Thanks to this graced encounter , I have undertaken a journey that brought me face to face with the psychological pain and the theological vendetta that the Catholic Church has used to denigrate Jews and Judaism ...
... hand , it seemed unfair , somehow , that God should hold Mr. Martin guilty for such a crime . If he did not harm me , even in little ways , how could he ever have consented to handing an innocent man over to Roman torturers two thousand ...
... hand , 30 percent of nominal Catholics agree with this view . The hierarchy of the Catholic Church has withheld assigning any reli- gious significance to the State of Israel . See http://people-press.org/reports/display .php3 ? PageID ...
... hands , of course , just in what way , when , and how the reuniting of Jews and Gentiles , the reunifica- tion of God's ... hand to the refutation of troublemakers within a community he had founded . In this letter Paul writes that " all ...
... hand were very much in need of it . Therefore , your becom- ing Christian is for me a portion of God's plan of salvation , and I do not find it difficult to accept the church as an instrument of salvation . But please , you do not need ...
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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 |