Kyrlezhev, Aleksandr2019-09-252019-09-252017-05-031995http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/164683"This is the religious answer. And an ancient Christian maxim states that there is no salvation outside the Church. If the complete self-revelation of God and the exclusive path of salvation which ensues from it can only be discovered within the Church, then what could be beyond its walls if not a religious twilight, thickening into a hos- tile and impassable darkness? 'The gods of the pagans are demons', and the God of Moses and the prophets is the very same 'Christian' God, the Word, even though He has not yet 'declared Himself' in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. So the Jews faced clear alternatives: either to become Christian or to be apostates from their own, Jewish, God, who made himself known in Jesus. In the Jewish-Christian age there was no alternative."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderJewsChristianssalvationChurchJewish-Christian communityReligious ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueChristian-JewishDogmaticsSalvation/liberationArticle