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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... York : Pueblo Pub- lishing Co. , 1976 . We Remember Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews , We Remember : A Reflection on the Shoah , January 25 , 1998 . 4. General Abbreviations Anchor Bible The Anchor Bible Dictionary , ed ...
... Il Sabato ( October 24 , 1987 ) . It , and the clarification , were reported in the New York Times ( November 19 , 1987 ) . 7. See n . 4 above . Dominus Jesus Ratzinger's release of Dominus Jesus on September 9 6 Salvation Is from the Jews.
... York , May 1 , 2001 ) . 14. Scholars are generally agreed that Paul drafted his letter to the Romans for the pur- pose of addressing the Christians at Rome in preparation for a visit there . In this letter he gives considerable space to ...
... , " in Christian Mission - Jewish Mission , eds . Martin A. Cohen and Helga Croner ( New York : Paulist Press , 1982 ) . The first sentence is dangerously close to affirming that God's Saving Mr. Martin from Hellfire 13.
... need not be nullified . 22. Edward Schillebeeckx , Christ : The Experience of Jesus as Lord ( New York : Seabury Press , 1980 ) 317 , 321 . Witness of the Holy Week Liturgy The thesis of this 18 Salvation Is from the Jews.
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 |