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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... spiritual plight of Jews . In so doing , he forced me to boldly confront the poison of anti - Judaism that infected my Catholic upbringing . For this I am eternally grateful . I am proud to acknowledge that my salvation came from a Jew ...
... spiritual kinship with the Jewish people " ( We Remember 1 ) . Finally , in 2002 , by virtue of " Reflections on Covenant and Mission , " Catholics were asked to consider whether Judaism- " the faithful response of the Jewish people to ...
... spirituality have secretly been shaped by eighteen hun- dred years of systematic propaganda that has carefully concealed the primacy of Israel and engineered an image of Jesus Christ that promotes an understanding of salvation designed ...
... spirituality , resolved the historical tension between its own firm affirmation of Jesus as the Christ and the Jewish rejection of this affirmation . Furthermore , while the church today boldly affirms the eternal covenant between God ...
... spiritual and material situa- tion . This grace 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 ...
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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 |