Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 80 No. 1, 2010.
Original scientific paper
God's Covenant with Israel in Romans 9-11 and Dialogue with Jews
Mato Zovkić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Paul's lamentation in Rom 9:1-5 contains eight positive qualities durably present in the Jewish people as a religious and ethnic community: they are God's chosen people Israel because theirs are the adoption, the glory, the covenants (diathēkai), the giving of the law (nomothesia), the worship, the promises, the patriarchs and the Messiah as member of a family and ethnic community. Despite the fact that in the time when Paul was writing his Letter to the Romans the majority of the Jews refused to believe in Jesus as the Messiah, the Apostle points out in 11:25-29 that all of Israel will be saved because God will forgive the sins of his people and restore his covenant with Israel which in fact was never abandoned from his side. The author explores exegetically these two pericopes within the context of the entire Letter to the Romans, especially within the Traktat über die Juden of Rom 9 – 11 (expression of D. Zeller and Fr. Mussner). In his third part the author depicts the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (LG15; NAE 4) on dialogue of Christians with Jews, as people living now, based on Rom 9-11. He quotes documents and guidelines of the Catholic Magisterium from 1974 to 2001 on Christian-Jewish dialogue.
Keywords
covenant; Israel; Christ; faith; Church; holocaust; Second Vatican Council; dialogue
Hrčak ID:
50821
URI
Publication date:
14.4.2010.
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