Salvation is from the Jews (John 4:22): Saving Grace in Judaism and Messianic Hope in ChristianityGrowing 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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... Gospel of Thomas ( 1st c . ) . This listing of 108 sayings of Jesus was found in the Nag Hammadi Library . The term " gospel " is never used in the original text and was as- signed on the basis of the first line : " These are the secret ...
... gospel of contempt for Jews . Rather , as the Jew- ish scholar Emil Fackenheim reminded his audience during the Sixth National Workshop on Christian - Jewish relations , " it was also the saints and the bishops who preached contempt for ...
... 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 notion that Jews some- how will cease being ...
... gospel Jesus expressly affirms : " No one comes to the Father except through me " ( John 14 : 6 ; see 1 John 2 : 22-23 ; 4 : 3 ; 5:12 ; 2 John 9 ) . These words appear to support the position that Jews can find no access to the Father ...
... Gospel According to John . AB 29 , 29A [ Garden City , NY : Doubleday , 1970 ] 1 : xlix ) . 20. This same observation could be made relative to Dominus Jesus . Quite clearly this encyclical is addressed to " bishops , theologians , and ...
Contents
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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 |