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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... original text and was as- signed on the basis of the first line : " These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down . " Hermas or Shepherd of Hermas Works of Justin the Martyr ( 100 ...
... original sin that every human being inherited from our first parents , Adam and Eve . I had to admit that Mr. Martin was not a Catholic and he did not have access to the sacrament of baptism that would remove that original sin . I knew ...
... original statement was published in 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 ...
... original intention . For our purposes here it suffices to note how Refoulé dismisses three misrepresentations frequently read into this text : ( a ) Paul never hints that he is offering a divine revelation to the ef- fect that some ...
... Jewish people throughout history consti- tute God's punishment for their role in killing Jesus . 3. The children of Israel were God's original chosen people 23 23 Chapter Two: Law and Grace among Jews and Christians.
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 |