The paper touches upon the phenomenon of interchanging consonants c and č in the text of the full lectionary from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow. The research aims at ...establishing orthographical rules which were followed by the writers of the book, as well as at defining the number and categories of mistakes which were made by the writers while breaking the aforementioned rules. The research findings amount to a linguistic confirmation of the northern origins of the Gospel Book Tip-7. Moreover, the results are the basis for assessing the level of the writers’ professionalism and for comparing this old text with other manuscripts created in similar locations and times.
The fall of the first man (Adam) into sin caused the man to lose the glory of God, man died and was separated from God. The gospel is glad tidings of Jesus Christ who died, rose again to save ...everyone who believes. To believe the gospel means to believe in the redemptive work of Christ, to reject the gospel is to reject salvation. In the Gospel God's truth is revealed to everyone who believes in Him. This truth is related to the absolute truth of God that no one has. The truth of God revealed in the Gospels is related to the truth that God has done through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus to save sinners. Salvation can only be received through faith. Faith is a gift from God given to humans so that they believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The gospel gives hope and sets people free from death. To get salvation everyone must listen to the gospel. The task of evangelism is the responsibility of the Church (believers) to preach the message of salvation in the power of the Holy Spirit to sinners so that they repent and have faith in Jesus and become disciples who obey the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus.
Święty Tomasz z Akwinu wśród komentowanych tekstów biblijnych pochyla się także nad Ewangelią św. Jana. Fragment, który stanowi podstawę niniejszego artykułu, omawia spotkanie Jezusa z Samarytanką ...przy studni jakubowej. Bazuje na rozdziale czwartym Tomaszowego komentarza Super Evangelium S. Ioannis Lectura (J 4,1-42; n. 549-663). Tekst biblijny zostaje odczytany w kontekście boskich i ludzkich pragnień: pragnienia zbawienia wszystkich ludzi, odwzajemnionej miłości, daru łaski Ducha Świętego, oczyszczenia z uwikłania w grzech, poznania prawdy o Bogu i o sobie. Dzięki darowi łaski Ducha Świętego, czyli „wodzie żywej”, człowiek może wzrastać w prawdziwych pragnieniach, a także oczyścić swoje serce z uwikłania w namiętności i grzeszne żądze. Cała rozległa tematyka ludzkich uczuć i pożądań, która znajdzie swoje systematyczne rozwinięcie w tekstach Sumy teologii czy De veritate, posiada ugruntowane podstawy biblijne. Tomaszowa egzegeza, swój przyszły potencjał teologii i antropologii uczuć, zakotwicza tutaj w metaforach biblijnych i sensie duchowym.
Success through failure Neagoe, Alexandru
Kairos,
11/2018, Volume:
12, Issue:
2
Journal Article, Paper
Open access
The present article sets out to analyze Luke’s view of the Christian mission to the Jews. Specific attention is paid to the question of whether in any sense this mission may be considered as being ...successful or it may be regarded as having a future. A key distinction is introduced between Luke’s representation of the Christian mission to the Jews and his interpretation of it. Thus, the first section looks primarily at how Luke represents the Jewish response to the mission, while the second section explores the way in which he interprets this response. The conclusion of the study is that Luke’s concern is neither to show that the mission to the Jews has failed because of a negative response, nor that it has succeeded because of a positive response, but rather that it has achieved its goal and it has a future despite a predominantly negative response.
U ovom se članku analizira Lukino viđenje kršćanskog poslanja Židovima. Posebna se pozornost posvećuje pitanju može li se u bilo kojem smislu to poslanje smatrati uspješnim te treba li ga nastaviti u budućnosti. Predstavlja se ključna razlika između Lukina prikaza kršćanskog poslanja Židovima te Lukina tumačenja toga poslanja. Stoga se prvi dio članka prije svega bavi pitanjem kako Luka prikazuje reakciju Židova na kršćansko poslanje, dok se u drugom dijelu istražuje način na koji Luka tumači njihovu reakciju. Zaključak ove studije jest da Lukina namjera nije bila pokazati da je poslanje Židovima bilo neuspješno zbog njihove negativne reakcije, kao ni da je bilo uspješno zbog njihove pozitivne reakcije, već da je ono postiglo svoj cilj i ima svoju budućnost, unatoč pretežno negativnoj reakciji Židova.
This article argues that the social memory approach makes a significant contribution to the interpretation of the early gospel tradition. This approach helps to overcome an anachronistic distinction ...between ‘canonical’ and ‘non-canonical’ (or ‘apocryphal’) Gospels by highlighting the way Jesus was portrayed in various Gospels of the first and second century. Early Christian Gospels in general presuppose the post-Easter perspective on Jesus as a divine figure, but depict his activity and teaching in different ways. A closer look at the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Peter demonstrates how these Gospels take up and continue perspectives which can be observed already in the earlier Gospels in their own ways. Thereby they provide glimpses of different social and theological contexts of second-century Christianity.
Several theologians unanimously accorded well with the notion that the writer of the Gospel of Matthew was a pastoral theologian. Nevertheless, the pastoral dimension of Matthew 22:32 has not been ...subjected to much scrutiny. In the text, Jesus celebrated the tradition of calling the God as the ‘God of the Fathers’. The tradition revealed that Jesus adapted the pastoral approach, which is termed as nostalgia in psychology. In empirical psychology researches, utilising nostalgia provides many positive benefits for people who have psychological problems, including an identity crisis. By using a psychological text to sharpen the understanding of the biblical text, this research showed the nostalgic construction in the tradition as a pastoral approach to the readers who were in a situation of a major crisis.Contribution By using the nostalgia as a psychological text, this article attempts to explore the pastoral dimension of Matthew 22:32, which seems absent in the study of Matthew 22:32.
The Gospel of John (GJohn) bears a striking resemblance to two later Jesus books, Epistula Apostolorum (EpAp) and Apocryphon of James (ApocrJas) (NHC I,2), in making authority claims that appeal to ...the socio-cultural significance of the textual medium. In all three, these claims are twofold: (1) internally ascribing authorship to representative figures of the early Jesus tradition portrayed as literate; (2) explicitly emphasizing the written medium of these authors’ compositions. GJohn can provide an instructive model for understanding these features in EpAp and ApocrJas, as both are demonstrably familiar with GJohn. EpAp and ApocrJas consequently can be examined alongside GJohn’s editorial expansion in ch. 21 as examples of early readers and users of GJohn exhibiting comparable claims regarding literate authors and their texts – applied to the Beloved Disciple (GJohn), the ‘Eleven’ apostles (EpAp) and James (ApocrJas).
Narrative historiography in John’s gospel operates with a number of literary strategies, such as historical referentiality and eyewitness testimony, which serve to authenticate the narrative and to ...inscribe the (hi)story of Jesus into ancient history. At the same time, these authentication strategies are counteracted or ‘ruptured’ (for example, by strategies of fictional literature), which situate John’s narrative of this-worldly history within a symbolic, metahistorical framework; yet these strategies are not to be perceived as detrimental to the reception of the text as a factual text. This article discusses two narrative strategies through which referentiality and authenticity are created as well as counteracted in the Johannine text; it also describes the forms and functions of these literary strategies that support the christological conception of history in John’s gospel.
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