Il Decreto Tridentino sul peccato originale
The current teaching of the Church on original sin is based on the Council of Trent, which in the Fifth Session of 1546, reviewed the teaching of previous Councils and reformulated them in consideration of contemporary needs. No serious attempt to re-think the dogma of original sin can be made there...
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| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1971
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Gregorianum
Year: 1971, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 595-637 |
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| Summary: | The current teaching of the Church on original sin is based on the Council of Trent, which in the Fifth Session of 1546, reviewed the teaching of previous Councils and reformulated them in consideration of contemporary needs. No serious attempt to re-think the dogma of original sin can be made therefore without undertaking an accurate analysis of the Tridentine canons, which present, in fact, not a few hermeneutical problems. After recapitulating the different stages of historical and theological research, the article explicates the meaning of the document in three successive steps. It begins by determining the philological and logical sense of the canons, thus laying the necessary groundwork for all subsequent inquiries. The second step is the historical interpretation, which proposes to reconstruct the thought the authors of the decree wished to express. The third, or dogmatic, step seeks to determine in what sense the conciliar text has to be considered also at the present time a valid norm for any explanation of original sin. In the conclusion the authors bring together those assertions which in their opinion have to be incorporated in any new explanation of original sin and those that are still open questions. (1) In the justified, there is no longer sin in the true and proper sense. It remains to be considered, however, how « concupiscence » is to be evaluated, the force which is described as effect and cause of sin and which does not make him in whom it subsists displeasing to God insofar as he offers opposition to it. (2) Justification, even in those who have not committed any personal sin, has the nature of pardon; in fact it is preceded by a state of corruption which can be termed « sin », and not merely metaphorically. What remains to be determined is, in what sense and to what point the notion of sin is verified in the non-justified and personally innocent man and why all the members of the human race are contaminated by this catastrophe; and there is particular obscurity regarding the operation whereby original sin is biologically transmitted. (3) The condition under which all man have been conceived, does not correspond to the plan of God, but was caused by man himself, who from the beginning of history has abused his liberty. The Council does not determine, however, to what extent the account of the drama of Eden, as given in Genesis, corresponds to historical reality, not even as regards the person of a single Adam, father of All men. The article is a contribution to a reassessment of original sin, whether in an ecumenical context or in that of an evolutive vision of the world, in continuity with the intent of the Tridentine conciliar teaching. |
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