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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... Synagogues and the Bishops ' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Af- fairs , USCCB , Reflections on Covenant and Mission , August 12 , 2002 . The Rites of the Catholic Church as Revised by Decree of the Second Vatican Ecumenical ...
... synagogue over the centuries . In the end , both Judaism and Christianity will be understood and admired as sister religions with a common bond that intimately unites one to the other in God's drama of salvation . In what follows , the ...
... synagogues ( cf. Matt 4:23 ; 9:35 ; Luke 4 : 15-18 ; John 18:20 , etc. ) and in the temple ( cf. John 18:20 , etc. ) that he frequented , as did the disciples even after the resurrection ( cf. , e.g. , Acts 2:46 ; 3 : 1 ; 21:26 , etc ...
... synagogue and enter the church to obtain God's grace and salvation . The moment , however , that Catholics acknowledge that " the Jews remain most dear to God " ( Nostra Aetate 4 ) , then it would seem to follow that God's elec- tion of ...
... synagogue in order to reach out to the Gentiles and make the God of Israel known , loved , and served among them . In reality , however , church and synagogue share the same spiritual heritage and are bound together under the same ...
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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 |