Salvation is From the Jews

Roy H Schueman

I have known my wife for fifteen years but we startred to court in a capacity of more than friends at "New Dawn," Walsingham some five years ago. This is where I heard mr. Schoeman speak for the first time. I have often noted to my Sergeant that our lectures on attack formation and defence strategies are the only that I have not fallen asleep in for 20 years ! Enjoying the beachfires and thespian opportunities of St Andrews far too much meant that I emerged after three fascinating years with a 'special,' one below an honours degree. Although my first love will always be religion my intellect is mush more perceptive than systematic. I find libraries as soporific as lectures. 

On a hot Kent day in an equally stuffy tent in July listening to Mr Schoeman was an exception to the rule that only military incisiveness has broken. Born an orthodox Jew he prayed the Talmud diligently every day. Claiming His God's Scriptural promises that those who ask for the Truth will be shown it he prayed diligently on his knees every night for illumination. After a full year a woman appeared to him who he knew to be Mary of Nazareth. She said not a word, but Roy "followed" her to the local Protestant church. To Schoeman all Christian churches were the same. He was promptly told, "We dont do Mary here," until his search brought him to Catholicism, where the once devout Jew stayed.

Schoeman is on the board of Harvard business school and his talks are touted, "Salvation Comes From the Jews." After John Paul II's historic moves towards "Our Older Brothers and Sisters in the Faith." I will be absolutely facinated to ask this abviously rational, religous man what he thinks of Jewish influence on capital hill and the evangelical inability to see the obvious semitic salvation story of sin and redemption repeating itself in the oppressed becoming the oppressor.