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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... Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews , Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church . June 24 , 1985 . Reflections Rites Consultation of the National Council ...
... God in heaven , " Catholic News Service ( 06 October 2006 ) , http : // www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21542 . the Holy Spirit to guide the teachers of my church 2 Salvation Is from the Jews.
... Holy See . His attempt to calm the fear of Jews by explaining to them that no pope or council ever dogmatically defined " blood guilt " was aptly responded to by Fackenheim . The genius of this solution is that it carefully acknowledges ...
... Holy Spirit . ( Dominus Jesus 21 ) The foundational assumption built into Dominus Jesus is that the for- giveness of sins depends , at all times and in all places , on the merits of Jesus ' crucifixion . This was the framework I was ...
... Holy Spirit into the world . Does Cardinal Ratzinger , accordingly , want us to imagine that Jews receive the forgiveness of their sins and their spiritual enlightenment through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross ? The instruction ...
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 |