Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 65 No. 1, 1995.
Original scientific paper
How is the Catechism interwoven with the Holy Scriptures
Mato Zovkić
; Vrhbosna Catholic Theology, Sarajevo, Bosna and Herzegovina
Abstract
Literary gender of this new document of magisterium is »catechismus maior« (J. Ratzinger) as a copmendium of catholic doctrine destined to clergy and laypersons, regardless of their education, age and cultural background. Having this in mind, it is clear that »el punto de partida para el desarrollo de cada una de las cuatro partes no es en el Catecismo la Sacrada Ecritura, sino la doctrina de la Iglesia expuesta a lo largo de los siglos par el Magisterio, y especiafmente per el Vaticano II« (G. Aranda, in Scripta teologica/Pamplona/1993, 490). 1. General hermeneutical approach to the Scriptures is along the lines of Dei Verbum, especially its doctrine on the unity of the Bible, on Christ as key event of revelation and on liturgical use of biblical texts. Examples of such approach are analyzed in numbers 533-37; 595; 1363; 1484-86; 2158. 2. Biblical foundations of Christian morality are given in numbers 1783-85; 1802; 1827; 1971; 2056; 2074; 2131-32; 2157; 2231; 2168-88; 2415-25 and others. 3. The Lord's prayer is rightly called a synthesis of the whole Gospel and a centre of the Scriptures because it involves Jesus' enacting of God's kingdom during his ministry and his commission to his followers to call God their Father while they continue his mission in human history. This is shown on numbers 2761-75; 2792; 2820-21; 2844-6; 2851; 2864 and others. 4. St. James' epistle is quoted or alluded in themes on faith (162; 32; 587; 1815), on sin and repentance (1434; 1867), on sick annointment (1511-1526), on the decalogue in general (1972; 2069; 2079), on the second commandment (2148; 2353); on the family within the fourth commandment (2207-13); on the poor within the seventh commandment (2407-14; 2437-49); on Christian prayer (2633; 2639-43; 2737; 2846). All these quotations and allusions take into account the context of Jas and rely on literary sense. Those catholics who believe that a universal catechism is necessary and possible will find a good ecclesiastical use of the Scriptures in it. It is abundantly and rightly interwoven with the Scriptures.
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Publication date:
21.10.1995.
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