hermeneutic study of Mc. 8.27
If there is a definition of faith which may converge on the thought of the vast majority of Christians belonging to various denominations, is that each of us gives a personal response the faith and the place it occupies in their lives. If you could represent the faith with a real picture, look like men and women on their journey, a path strewn with obstacles, sure, but also of questions along the way for disciples of Christ. I personally conceive of faith as a movement from and into something that in the path of life is often the meetings, sometimes pleasant, sometimes not pleasant, and that these meetings is strengthened or weakened, enriched or impoverished and so on.
Even Jesus' disciples were men on the move, searching for answers are not always immediate and obvious. One of the songs in which one sees this research is its incessant Mc. 8.27, where Jesus asks his disciples, first in the outer voices in its wake that turned around his person and his work, then making the same question to his disciples. This is one of the few contexts in the Gospel where Jesus asked his disciples a question that concerns himself. Why is it that Jesus calls his disciples to question him or her? What is the meaning of such an invitation? What response is expected Jesus to the disciples and, above all, and there exists today a clear answer and dogmatic?
Who is Jesus of Nazareth? For Orthodox Christians the Son of God, a Jewish rabbi and a context of traditional structures of their religion, atheists for a man than a religious renewal, for the followers of a New Age guru and started etc.. From this little discussion we can determine that there are many images of Jesus and that these can not be reduced to a variation of that theme, a Christology valid for every man and every context.
If there is a definition of faith which may converge on the thought of the vast majority of Christians belonging to various denominations, is that each of us gives a personal response the faith and the place it occupies in their lives. If you could represent the faith with a real picture, look like men and women on their journey, a path strewn with obstacles, sure, but also of questions along the way for disciples of Christ. I personally conceive of faith as a movement from and into something that in the path of life is often the meetings, sometimes pleasant, sometimes not pleasant, and that these meetings is strengthened or weakened, enriched or impoverished and so on.
Even Jesus' disciples were men on the move, searching for answers are not always immediate and obvious. One of the songs in which one sees this research is its incessant Mc. 8.27, where Jesus asks his disciples, first in the outer voices in its wake that turned around his person and his work, then making the same question to his disciples. This is one of the few contexts in the Gospel where Jesus asked his disciples a question that concerns himself. Why is it that Jesus calls his disciples to question him or her? What is the meaning of such an invitation? What response is expected Jesus to the disciples and, above all, and there exists today a clear answer and dogmatic?
Who is Jesus of Nazareth? For Orthodox Christians the Son of God, a Jewish rabbi and a context of traditional structures of their religion, atheists for a man than a religious renewal, for the followers of a New Age guru and started etc.. From this little discussion we can determine that there are many images of Jesus and that these can not be reduced to a variation of that theme, a Christology valid for every man and every context.
Over the centuries Christians have responded in different ways To the question set by Jesus: Many of these responses were won by history (Marcion, Cathars, Gnosticism, etc..), while others, with the benefit of history, have acquired great prestige and are now an integral and indispensable part of the common heritage and of supraconfessional millions of Christians. Think of the divinity of Jesus, apart from some minority beliefs like Jehovah's Witnesses, has become dogma that Jesus has a dual nature, divine and human, which are included in one person. These acquisitions are the product of much heated debate and received the chrism of dogmas only from the fourth century AD through the Councils of Nicea, Ephesus and Chalcedon (V sec.), And in any case are not never been unanimously accepted by all Christendom, as demonstrated by the fact that pockets of Christianity "others" still survive in Europe until the Middle Ages.
What I wish to discuss here is not the history of Christian dogma, but the results dogmatic of theological reflection that, starting from enigmatic that question posed by Jesus, today as never before is no longer as free research, but more and more like ancilla doctrinae , and how endorsement of traditions that human origin and for which claims a divine origin evangelical or otherwise.
What I wish to discuss here is not the history of Christian dogma, but the results dogmatic of theological reflection that, starting from enigmatic that question posed by Jesus, today as never before is no longer as free research, but more and more like ancilla doctrinae , and how endorsement of traditions that human origin and for which claims a divine origin evangelical or otherwise.
It should first make an analysis etymology of the word "dogma " in search of semantic shifts that the term may have suffered over the centuries, to be precise since the Council of Nicaea. The word "dogma" comes from the greek word Doke, who holds the different meanings to reflect , think , express an opinion, decide (but not requiring the latter sense political / military). "Dogma" originally had no doctrinal nor tax cut, took the meaning of the truths of faith only later, in the religious Christian, during the Council of Nicaea , when the Emperor Constantine decided, against the advice of a not insignificant against some of bishops and Christian minorities such as Arianism, which disputes were to be turned off with blows of dogma to which all Christendom would have to comply, or face 'exclusion of bishops from the privileges granted by the emperor.
There is no doubt that the dogmatization of Christianity and its subsequent removal at the level of adhesion to the Gospel and incisiveness on this plan, rooted in ecumenical councils and imperial interests in the merger of church and interests . Few Christians realize that the catastrophic events such as Nicea Chalcedon or had in the lives of millions of Christians and the damage that the harnessing of Jesus and his message in the formulation of dogma has caused and still causes today.
If today we can claim Jesus as a open event, not as an ontological category to narrow the definition is absolute, we owe to the courage of theologians who have struggled for recognition within the Church of the pluralist principle, although there are those who, like Ratzinger, that freedom would suffocate. He represents, in my humble opinion, the death of theology: his latest book confirms his theological amateurism. Ratzinger does theology, apologetics ago.
The death of Christian theology began with the assumption by the church fathers, the categories of Greek philosophy, especially the Platonic (see the dichotomy of body / spirit, etc..) And that of Aristotle.
Jesus by proclaiming the Kingdom of heaven to pass abstract speculation about the nature of which is built dogmatic and theological discourse, like a physical law or a chemical formula. Jesus the Jewish messiah is passed to a spiritual being idolized and mythologized, and his message, the one from which you should build theological reflection, cans, like an accessory that we can leave easily. This Jesus apodictically built on the basis of formulas and definitions is irrefutable, ultimately, a Jesus depersonalized, dehumanized and dehumanizing is a Jesus out of history that does not advertise, does not feel emotions, do not cry, do not rejoice with the subjects of history .
The New Testament is so faithful witness and, in most cases, the eye of life and action of Jesus of Nazareth, but first of all interpretation, subjective reconstruction of a historical event. The evangelists are not historical, are performers, and their interpretation is the result of the fourfold gospel, an expression of faith Christology and the community far apart in time and space. Any line of argument that borders on idolatry of the Bible in favor of their sect they belong, is a symptom of fundamentalism and, above all, rejects the New Testament canon of the same organization that is not reduced to a monolinguaggio, a monoteologia and a monocristologia . Jesus demystify the oral Torah, ie the self-righteous precepts which reduced the faith to comply with obsessive rules and prohibitions that governed the life of the faithful in all its facets. Why, we, today, we idolize the New Testament with the aim of extrapolating the dogmas that authenticate our beliefs that particularistic? Mind you that this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church alone that has made its existence a dogma steel, but to all Christians who believe the practice refer to the dogmatic systems.
The Church tends to confuse faith and doctrine, theological research, regulatory and doctrinal content. With a view of the primacy of on faith tradition, it would impose a theology to the faithful in every respect corresponding to the doctrine professed (even when relevant points of it have no connection with what Jesus preached and as the former Christians have practiced) in the name of the character transtemporal of that doctrine. But the Church, like all the earthly institutions is not an unconditional and unchanging entity, outside and above time and history. In 2000 years it has undergone evolution and involution, doctrinal and institutional changes, adjustments and real estate. If we take into consideration only 10% of the material on which dogmatic Catholic teaching, would find that over the centuries it has met with changes of all kinds.
Finally, one last mention of hermeneutics. The last two decades
hermeneutic methodology has been attacked by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The theological freedom is now limited by the state of theology and the theologian in the Church issued by the Vatican as an instrument of control and supervision of the theological within the Catholic Church. While the Church has every right to voice their theological line officer, the other does not have the right to freedom of theological research to coincide with his teaching of the Church.
hermeneutics makes use of the contribution of social science analytical, as one of its principles, methodologies and understanding of the biblical text from the context, environment and culture that produced it. The use of hermeneutics in the context of exegetical studies also implies a strong political and social commitment. It therefore represents a new form of understanding the Christian faith. Avant-garde in the application of hermeneutic method to biblical exegesis was R. Bultmann with his formulation of the duality between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history. The Vatican hierarchy
argue that hermeneutics operates a modernization antitraditional forms the figure of Jesus, a dangerous projection that tries to remove faith from theological reflection and to delegitimize the tradition and the Magisterium of the Church.
But the starting point of theological reflection should be a living faith in daily life, not formulas of Nicaea and Chalcedon. The formulas and dogmas are attempting to translate human language into an object, the faith, which falls under the transcendental being, and that comes not from the dogmatic formula, but from the experience of the believer. This translation "language" of faith can not transcend and encompass all the experiences of faith and can not represent something that is objectively declines subjectively and in particular, millions of believers.
The crowd that followed Jesus believed in Him because Jesus during his ministry had instructed them on his dual human and divine nature, or the concept of the Trinity and other theological sophistry. People believed in him because he had recognized the mediator of the Kingdom of God : miracles, spoke as one who had authority (and not as the scribes), it was unheard discourse, never heard before, which offended the hard-hearted but fascinated by the pure of heart and who had nothing to lose as prostitutes and tax collectors, the dregs of Palestine.
There is no doubt that the dogmatization of Christianity and its subsequent removal at the level of adhesion to the Gospel and incisiveness on this plan, rooted in ecumenical councils and imperial interests in the merger of church and interests . Few Christians realize that the catastrophic events such as Nicea Chalcedon or had in the lives of millions of Christians and the damage that the harnessing of Jesus and his message in the formulation of dogma has caused and still causes today.
If today we can claim Jesus as a open event, not as an ontological category to narrow the definition is absolute, we owe to the courage of theologians who have struggled for recognition within the Church of the pluralist principle, although there are those who, like Ratzinger, that freedom would suffocate. He represents, in my humble opinion, the death of theology: his latest book confirms his theological amateurism. Ratzinger does theology, apologetics ago.
The death of Christian theology began with the assumption by the church fathers, the categories of Greek philosophy, especially the Platonic (see the dichotomy of body / spirit, etc..) And that of Aristotle.
Jesus by proclaiming the Kingdom of heaven to pass abstract speculation about the nature of which is built dogmatic and theological discourse, like a physical law or a chemical formula. Jesus the Jewish messiah is passed to a spiritual being idolized and mythologized, and his message, the one from which you should build theological reflection, cans, like an accessory that we can leave easily. This Jesus apodictically built on the basis of formulas and definitions is irrefutable, ultimately, a Jesus depersonalized, dehumanized and dehumanizing is a Jesus out of history that does not advertise, does not feel emotions, do not cry, do not rejoice with the subjects of history .
The New Testament is so faithful witness and, in most cases, the eye of life and action of Jesus of Nazareth, but first of all interpretation, subjective reconstruction of a historical event. The evangelists are not historical, are performers, and their interpretation is the result of the fourfold gospel, an expression of faith Christology and the community far apart in time and space. Any line of argument that borders on idolatry of the Bible in favor of their sect they belong, is a symptom of fundamentalism and, above all, rejects the New Testament canon of the same organization that is not reduced to a monolinguaggio, a monoteologia and a monocristologia . Jesus demystify the oral Torah, ie the self-righteous precepts which reduced the faith to comply with obsessive rules and prohibitions that governed the life of the faithful in all its facets. Why, we, today, we idolize the New Testament with the aim of extrapolating the dogmas that authenticate our beliefs that particularistic? Mind you that this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church alone that has made its existence a dogma steel, but to all Christians who believe the practice refer to the dogmatic systems.
The Church tends to confuse faith and doctrine, theological research, regulatory and doctrinal content. With a view of the primacy of on faith tradition, it would impose a theology to the faithful in every respect corresponding to the doctrine professed (even when relevant points of it have no connection with what Jesus preached and as the former Christians have practiced) in the name of the character transtemporal of that doctrine. But the Church, like all the earthly institutions is not an unconditional and unchanging entity, outside and above time and history. In 2000 years it has undergone evolution and involution, doctrinal and institutional changes, adjustments and real estate. If we take into consideration only 10% of the material on which dogmatic Catholic teaching, would find that over the centuries it has met with changes of all kinds.
Finally, one last mention of hermeneutics. The last two decades
hermeneutic methodology has been attacked by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The theological freedom is now limited by the state of theology and the theologian in the Church issued by the Vatican as an instrument of control and supervision of the theological within the Catholic Church. While the Church has every right to voice their theological line officer, the other does not have the right to freedom of theological research to coincide with his teaching of the Church.
hermeneutics makes use of the contribution of social science analytical, as one of its principles, methodologies and understanding of the biblical text from the context, environment and culture that produced it. The use of hermeneutics in the context of exegetical studies also implies a strong political and social commitment. It therefore represents a new form of understanding the Christian faith. Avant-garde in the application of hermeneutic method to biblical exegesis was R. Bultmann with his formulation of the duality between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history. The Vatican hierarchy
argue that hermeneutics operates a modernization antitraditional forms the figure of Jesus, a dangerous projection that tries to remove faith from theological reflection and to delegitimize the tradition and the Magisterium of the Church.
But the starting point of theological reflection should be a living faith in daily life, not formulas of Nicaea and Chalcedon. The formulas and dogmas are attempting to translate human language into an object, the faith, which falls under the transcendental being, and that comes not from the dogmatic formula, but from the experience of the believer. This translation "language" of faith can not transcend and encompass all the experiences of faith and can not represent something that is objectively declines subjectively and in particular, millions of believers.
The crowd that followed Jesus believed in Him because Jesus during his ministry had instructed them on his dual human and divine nature, or the concept of the Trinity and other theological sophistry. People believed in him because he had recognized the mediator of the Kingdom of God : miracles, spoke as one who had authority (and not as the scribes), it was unheard discourse, never heard before, which offended the hard-hearted but fascinated by the pure of heart and who had nothing to lose as prostitutes and tax collectors, the dregs of Palestine.
The error that the Church is to proclaim Christ out of history a . It's the presumption that you have answered once and for all the fateful question, "And you, who do you think I am?", And they have nothing to learn from the experience of faith. Christ preached by the Church is therefore nothing more and nothing less than a idol, a deity whose essence must be defined with great precision and woe to those who, like the modernist theologians dare to go beyond formulas council! But what is to submit meekly to the doctrine if he does not "experience" the Christ in history, if we surrender, we modern men, to follow, as did the tax collector Levi Matthew? It is heresy to reject a truth of faith or violating one of the teachings of Jesus? The Christian should not have priority, and if so on what to prioritize? Sterile observance of rites and sacraments and the belief in the truth of faith that people do not understand (passive faith) or the construction of the Kingdom of Heaven (active faith)?
Herculaneum. They were arrested by police in Portsmouth, a husband and wife Roma, Romanians domiciled in the gypsy camp of Herculaneum, which will soon be displaced. The couple Asan Tudor, and Ioan Alexandrina, both 43-year old, forced their children, a boy and a girl, 14 and 11 years, to beg from passers-by and public places of Portici. The two children were also forced to rummage in the garbage bins.