Le meilleur de la Lettre aux Romains procède du judaïsme de Paul

Víctor M. Fernández Mgr
The Best of the Letter to the Romans comes from Paul Judaism

Quite a lot of theologians have stressed Paul's breaking off with the Law and with Judaism. The A. thinks that they have it wrong: Paul has been thoroughly faithful to the deepest core of Jewish religiosity, and he has expressed it in his teaching of justification through faith. For Paul, the mission of Christianity consists in summoning up this Jewish core, in developing it and in communicating it to all nations. Such a view coincides with the theory proposed by the Jewish writer Franz Rosenzweig. On the other hand, Judaism does not cease being a way to salvation, and it reminds Christians of their permanent substratum. Judaism is called to reach its fulness at the coming of the Messiah, the final object of its millenary hope. The Messiah will gratuitously realise among the Jews the ultimate finality of the Law, fulfilling the never revoked Covenant. We too are waiting for Him, in order to attain, in Him, our Christian fulness.
Le meilleur de la Lettre aux Romains procède du judaïsme de Paul

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