scholarly journals Menimbang (Ulang) Kekerasan Dalam Alkitab Dari Perspektif Katolik

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-269
Author(s):  
Indra Tanureja
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Spiritual Perspective ◽  
The Church

Abstrak: Kekerasan dalam Alkitab boleh dikatakan merupakan sebuah topik alkitabiah yang unik dan abadi, baik dari sudut pandang akademis maupun spiritual. Orang tidak hanya perlu memahaminya untuk orang lain, tetapi juga untuk diri sendiri. Sejak Marcion di abad pertama sampai saat ini, meskipun sudah amat banyak tulisan dihasilkan, tidak pernah ada suatu solusi yang memuaskan semua pihak. Tulisan ini menawarkan sudut pandang yang jarang disentuh, yaitu sudut pandang Gereja Katolik. Membaca Alkitab sebagai orang Katolik berarti membaca dengan memperhatikan juga ajaran-ajaran Gereja tentang (pokok-pokok tertentu dari) Alkitab sebagaimana terungkap dalam dokumen-dokumen resmi Gereja. Ajaran Gereja khususnya Dei Verbum artikel 11 dan 12 memuat paling tidak pemahaman akan tiga hal yang dapat membuka kemungkinan untuk memahami persoalan ini secara lebih utuh. Pokok-pokok yang dimaksud adalah soal inspirasi, paham tentang Alkitab, dan kesatuan seluruh Alkitab sebagai kunci penafsiran Alkitab dalam Gereja. Pembacaan Alkitab secara menyeluruh menunjukkan bahwa klim kekerasan dalam Alkitab adalah sebuah klim sepihak yang tidak memperhatikan keseluruhan Alkitab sebagaimana dipahami dan di terima Gereja sebagai buku iman.   Kata-kata Kunci: Kekerasan dalam Alkitab, Ajaran Gereja, Dei Verbum, inspirasi, paham tentang Alkitab, kesatuan seluruh Alkitab, jenis sastra.   Abstract: Violence in the Bible could be considered a unique eternal theme in the Bible, be it from academic or spiritual perspective. One needs to understand it not only for helping others, but also for himself. Since Marcion in the first century up to our time, there has been no solution which is acceptable and could satisfy everybody, notwithstanding the abundance literature on this topic. To read the Bible as Catholic means to read it employing the Church’s teachings on the Bible which are found in the official Church documents as the hermeneutical key. The teaching of the Church especially Dei Verbum 11 and 12 offers an understanding on three important points that could be useful for comprehending the topic in a more comprehensive way. Those three points are the notion of biblical inspiration, the Catholic understanding of the Bible and the unity of the Bible. They could be the key to a correct interpretation of the Bible within the Church. The holistic reading of the Bible shows that the claim of biblical violence is actually a one-sided claim that does not pay fair attention to the unity of the Bible as a whole as it is understood and accepted by the Church as the book of faith. Keywords: Violence in the Bible, Church’s official teaching, Dei Verbum, divine inspiration, notion of the Bible, the unity of the Bible, literary genre.

scholarly journals INTERPRETAR A BÍBLIA AOS CINQUENTA ANOS DO CONCÍLIO VATICANO II

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (123) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Johan Konings
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Theological Hermeneutics ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
The Church ◽  
Human Rationality ◽  
The Way

Aos cinquenta anos do Vaticano II recorda-se o caminho que levou até a Constituição Dei Verbum e, daí, até a Exortação Verbum Domini. Considera-se a questão hermenêutica: a leitura da Bíblia centrada em torno do Evento Jesus e tendo seu “lugar” na vida da Igreja, que herdou o Espírito de Jesus. Como a leitura das Escrituras deve ser a alma da teologia, não se pode separar a crítica históricoliterária da hermenêutica teológica. Esta se inscreve na racionalidade ampliada do ser humano, tendo na mira não as palavras, mas a “coisa”. Unindo o horizonte original do texto ao de hoje, abre-o em diversos níveis e direções, enquanto a exegese histórico-literária segura o sentido primeiro e referencial. Descreve-se a circularidade dessa hermenêutica. Por fim, consideram-se a experiência latinoamericana, bem como e a leitura bíblica como alma da pastoral hoje.ABSTRACT: Fifty years after Vatican II we remember the way unto the Constitution Dei Verbum and from there to the Exhortation Verbum Domini. Then is treated the issue of hermeneutics: the lecture of the Bible centred around the Jesus Event and having its “locus” in the life of the Church, heiress of His Spirit. Since Scripture reading must be the soul of Theology, historical-literary criticism cannot be separated from theological hermeneutics. These are inscribed in amplified human rationality, that aims not at the words, but at the “thing”. They unite the original and the today horizon, opening the text in several levels and directions, while historicalliterary exegesis warrants the original and referential meaning. Attention is drawn to the circularity of hermeneutics. Finally is lighted the Latin American experience, and Scripture reading as the soul of pastoral praxis today.

scholarly journals XII ASSEMBLEIA GERAL ORDINÁRIA DO SÍNODO DOS BISPOS SOBRE A PALAVRA DE DEUS

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (114) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Konings
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
The Church

Em outubro de 2008 transcorreu em Roma a XII Assembleia Geral Ordin ária do Sínodo dos Bispos, o qual é uma instituição permanente criada pelo Concílio Vaticano II para manter o diálogo dos pastores-bispos das Igrejas particulares. Nesta Assembleia, dedicada à Palavra de Deus na vida e na missão da Igreja, foi retomada praticamente a Constituição Dogmática Dei Verbum do Vaticano II. Depois de apresentar o tema da Palavra de Deus, traçamos um breve histórico focalizando os inícios da Tradição cristã e os tempos modernos desde Leão XIII até hoje. Em seguida descrevemos a XII Assembleia Geral, especialmente a Relatio post Disceptationem e as Propositiones. Concluímos com uma reflexão teológicopastoral sobre a Revelação e a leitura bíblica, e sugestões para a prática.ABSTRACT: In October of 2008 the XII Ordinary General Assembly of the Sinod of Bishops took place in Rome. The Sinod of Bishops is a permanent institution created by the II Vatican Council in order to maintain the dialogue of pastorsbishops of the particular Churches. This Assembly, dedicated to the Word of God in the life and in the mission of the Church, basically treated again the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum of the II Vatican Council. After presenting the theme of the Word of God, we outline a brief history focusing on the beginnings of the Christian Tradition and the modern epoch since Leo XIII until today. Next we describe the XII General Assembly, especially the Relatio post Disceptationem and the Propostiones. We conclude with a theological-pastoral reflection on Revelation and the reading of the bible, and some practical suggestions. 

scholarly journals Ewangelie jako prawdziwe świadectwo Słowa Wcielonego

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-190
Author(s):  
Janusz Kręcidło
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
True Nature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
Historical Reliability ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

The article develops the concept of true witness of the four canonical Gospels to Jesus Christ the Incarnated Word. The starting point is presentation of the teaching of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (PBC) in the document The Inspiration and Truth of the Sacred Scripture (2014) about the witness of the Bible, especially the Gospels. The canonical Gospels are considered in it as main witness of the life and teaching of the Incarnated Word. The article demonstrates that the PBC repeats here the teaching of the conciliar constitution Dei Verbum (1965). Argumentation in the article emphasizes the historical reliability of the transmission of the life and teaching of the historical Jesus in the Church tradition: historical Jesus – eye witnesses – written Gospels – authoritative interpretation in the Church. The canonical Gospels are not primarily literary texts but a truthful registration of the witness of faith of Jesus’ believers. Consequently, the hermeneutic of faith is the only methodology that is apt to explain and understand the true nature of the Scriptures.

Do not forsake the assembly: The importance of Christian community

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-411
Author(s):  
Peter Dibley
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Family ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
Critical Challenge

The Church in America (Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant) is facing a critical challenge in the twenty-first century. That challenge is that more and more people are leaving Church. Research has found that of the 73% of Americans who call themselves Christian only 31% go to church at least once a month. Those who are leaving the Church fall into three groups: “those who love Jesus, but not the Church,” “Church refugees,” and “dones.” Each of these groups shares a few common bonds. They are discouraged and fed up with being hurt by other Christians and being stifled by Church bureaucracy. Most of all they are discouraged by what they feel to be a lack of community in the Church. Thus, they are finding community in other places outside the Church. The Bible has a lot to say about the importance of Christian community, and specifically the community of the Church. This article explores passages in both the First and Second Testaments that strongly encourage community and set forth the benefits of community, especially within the Church. The article also presents an example within a local church about the care, love, and support a family experienced during a time of crisis from the church. In addition, the article also emphasizes how important it is to give witness to how the Church rallies to form community. The family shared their story and their expression of gratitude to the church. This article tells their story to inspire and offer hope to those who have gone through tragedy and have given up on the Church.

scholarly journals A Palavra do Senhor. Comentário e destaques à Exortação Apostólica Pós-Sinodal do Papa Bento XVI

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (283) ◽  
pp. 606
Author(s):  
Filippo Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Lectio Divina ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Point Of Reference

O A. sintetiza a Exortação Apostólica Pós-Sinodal Verbum Domini, realçando sua estrutura dialógica e chamando a atenção para o que considera os pontos fortes do documento: a continuidade entre a Verbum Domini e a Dei Verbum (do Vat. II) no que concerne à centralidade da Palavra de Deus (Cristo); esta, como sendo o miolo do documento, não a Bíblia, embora esta seja seu receptáculo; uma renovada comunhão entre exegese, teologia e pastoral; Maria, ponto de referência para se compreender a relação entre Palavra de Deus e Igreja; leitura orante e lectio divina como abordagens que favorecem o encontro pessoal e comunitário com a Palavra; a dimensão inerentemente missionária da Palavra de Deus, que se dá, sobretudo, pelo testemunho de vida; o impulso ao diálogo ecumênico e inter-religioso decorrente do encontro com a Palavra; a comunhão e a alegria, resultantes desse encontro; o estilo sapiencial do texto e sua linguagem viva, calorosa e comunicativa, fruto da experiência de encontro com o Verbo encarnado, Palavra de Deus. Neste quadro, a Bíblia é vista como verdadeiro código primordial da humanidade, capaz de falar a uma sociedade plural, desejosa, em tempos de árido relativismo, do Evangelho da Vida.Abstract: The Author summarizes the Post-Synod Verbum Domini Apostolic Exhortation, emphasizing its dialogical structure and calling attention to what he considers to be the strong points of the document: the continuity between the Verbum Domini and the Dei Verbum (of the Vatican II) with regard to the centrality of God’s Word (Christ’s); considering the latter – rather than the Bible that would be just its receptacle – as the kernel of the document; a renewed communion between exegesis, theology and pastoral; Maria as a point of reference in order to understand the relationship between God’s Word and the Church; praying-reading and lectio divina as the types of approaches that encourage the individual and the community encounter with the Word; the inherently missionary dimension of God’s Word, that happens, above all, by the testimony of life; the impulse towards the ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue resulting from the meeting with the Word; the communion and the joy resulting from this meeting; the sapiential style of the text and its lively, warm and communicative language, fruit of the experience of the meetingwith the incarnated Word, God’s Word. In this picture, the Bible is seen as mankind’s true primary code able to speak to a plural and yearning society, at a time of arid relativism of the Gospel of Life.

The Necessary Angel: Imagination and the Bible

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Mark Coleridge
Keyword(s):  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Church

The point of this article is to explore the role of imagination in both the production and interpretation of the biblical texts. To speak of the metaphoric character of the Bible is to reject all authoritarian notions of interpretation which would claim that there is only one correct interpretation of a text. The biblical texts demand constantly fresh interpretations, the discovery of new possibilities. All our reading of the Scripture runs down to the sea of adoration, into that dark moment when we surrender to the infinite possibility which imagination has perceived at the heart of things. A failure to actualise Scripture in the life of the Church is a failure primarily of imagination.

From Marilyn Manson to Amos: Navigating Pluralism in the Twenty-First-Century West

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-330
Author(s):  
William H. U. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church ◽  
Marilyn Manson

This is the second installment of a two part study which attempts to apply the theology of religious and cultural tolerance from Amos 2:1–3 to the pluralistic twenty-first-century West. Pluralism is not a new idea. In fact, Amos and both the Old and New Testaments are given in a pluralistic context. This study makes correlations with Patten’s article ‘Multicultural Dimensions of the Bible’ and the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. It attempts to demonstrate how both Jesus and the church navigated pluralism with religious and cultural tolerance. This article is a call to Christians to stand together and be strong in our faith, values and practices, while proclaiming the gospel and evangelizing in the context of the twenty-first-century pluralistic West in an uncompromising yet balanced and truly tolerant way.

scholarly journals Die huwelik in die eerste-eeuse Mediterreense wêreld (II): Huwelik, egbreuk, egskeiding en hertrou

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Van Eck
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Church

Marriage in the first-century Mediterranean world (II): Marriage, adultery, divorce and remarriage This article is the second in a three-part series that aims to stimulate the hermeneutical debate in the church about marriage as Biblical institution. The first-century Mediterranean world had a very specific understanding of what marriage, betrothal, adultery, divorce and remarriage entailed. A description thereof is given. The question whether this understanding of these concepts can still be applicable in our understanding of marriage as a postmodern institution, is posed. Although the question is answered in the negative, it does not, however, mean that the Bible does not have anything to offer as far as marriage in a postmodern society is concerned.

scholarly journals Die huwelik in die eerste-eeuse Mediterreense wêreld (I): Vroue in ’n man se wêreld

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Van Eck
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
The Church

Marriage in the first-century Mediterranean world (1): Females in a male world This article is the first of a three-part series that aims to stimulate the hermeneutical debate in the church about marriage. Attention is given to four aspects of the cultural world of the Bible that are relevant for an understanding of the institution of marriage as presented in Biblical texts: marriage as embedded in the social institution of the family (kinship), the role of honor and shame, dyadic personality and the different marriage strategies that can be discerned throughout Biblical times. The article concludes with a few remarks on the effects the above “cultural scripts” had on the understanding of marriage as an institution and the position of women in marriage.

The Bible after Evangelicalism: Ideas for a Liberal Doctrine of Scripture

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-343
Author(s):  
Robert G. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Church

The aim of this essay is to present several ideas for a liberal doctrine of scripture, i.e. a written statement which specifies the nature, authority, and function of the Christian Bible that is not grounded upon the belief that it was given by God through divine inspiration. These ideas are categorised into three areas which I think any doctrine of scripture should address: the nature of the Bible, the authority of the Bible, and the functions of the Bible in the Church. I argue i) that the Bible is a collection of humanly authored books, ii) that these books are authoritative in Christianity primarily in the sense that they are the principal historical witnesses to Jesus Christ, and iii) that the Bible can function in the Church as a classic, as historical evidence and as a theological prompt.

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