RT Article
T1 Drabina Jakubowa jako krzyż  = Jacob’s ladder as a cross
JF Studia religiologica
VO 43
SP 29
OP 34
A1 Myszor, Wincenty 1941-2017
LA Polish
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1761237403
AB In Judeo-Christian theology, as in Hellenistic Christianity, the cross of Jesus was a fundamental problem. Until the time of Constantine in the Imperial community it was a sign of disgrace. For Christians the cross was a sign of salvation. The theological problem was caused by the inclusion of the cross as a positive symbol in a general and religious sense. In Judeo-Christian theology a method of typology was used which was known also in Jewish exegesis. The cross as a symbol of salvation was predicted among others by ”Jacob’s ladder” (cf. Genesis 28,12). Christians understood it as a cosmic cross on which Logos (the Son of God) had descended to earth, and as a path to salvation for people ascending to heaven. From ”Jacob’s ladder” only certain details were chosen for the exegesis: ”the wood of the ladder/cross”, the motif of descent and ascent. In this way the typology of the ”ladder of the cross” allowed the meaning of the cross as a symbol of the shame of Jesu’s death sentence to win out
K1 antropologia religii
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K1 filozofia religiistudia religiologica
K1 historia religii
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