El dilema entre la vida y la muerte (Exegesis prenicena de Deut. 30,15.19): II
This second, synthetical part of the article points out a number of characteristics (analogies and differences) of prenicean exegesis. Il is divided into two sections. A doctrinal section gathers together the numerous theological motifs discovered in the first, analytical part of the article. The au...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1970
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Gregorianum
Year: 1970, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 509-536 |
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| Summary: | This second, synthetical part of the article points out a number of characteristics (analogies and differences) of prenicean exegesis. Il is divided into two sections. A doctrinal section gathers together the numerous theological motifs discovered in the first, analytical part of the article. The author not only classifies them according to the analogies they present with one another, he tries also to make manifest their variety and richness. How was it possible that an apparently episodical verse, dealing with matter not especially subject to controversy, gave rise in the first christian centuries to so many authentically theological topics. We have here a most illustrative example of the difference between the « free » exegesis of the first two centuries and the « controlled » exegesis of those that followed. Or, in other words, the difference between doctrine founded on a logion by analogy with other similar logia, but without reference to its immediate context, and an exegesis homogeneously expanded over all the verses of a text, without fixing upon theologically catalytic points or terms. The second section consists of a running commentary on the text, with very incomplete documentation in the footnotes of western exegesis contemporary with Saint Augustine. The reader will observe the exegetical change. The texts have unquestionably lost force and are turned toward a moral interpretation. One notes sadly how an exegesis that began and developed independently of the « two ways », after following a splendid doctrinal trajectory, has finally conformed to the rudimentary ethical mould of the well-trodden « ways ». In addition to its general insights relative to the post-nicean period, the article may have succeeded in bringing to light the true theological dimensions of a theme modestly concealed in a few words of Deuteronomy. And perhaps it has succeeded also in redrafting by a new method the premises of a pre-Pelagian tradition. |
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