Original scientific paper
The Metapfor „Christ – the Bridegroom” in the Light of the Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Religious Language of E. Juengel and P. Ricoeur
Dražen Marija Vargašević
; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article connects the sanhuanistic metapfor „Christ – the bridegroom” with the hermeneutical theory of religious language of Eberhard Jüngel and Paul Ricoeur. With its rich expressiveness the nuptial metapfor transmitts the intensity of mystical itinerary and presents itself as a challenge to theological perception. Its conduction through several stages of metaphor's understanding in one hand is revealed as a test of the credibility of the metaphor, and in other hand as a challenge to linguistic theories to new achievements. In concise overview is reveald how the nuptial metaphor relates to defined truth, to Nietzsche's reduction of metaphor to the level of impulse and to the Aristotelian idea of the necessity and efficacy of metaphor. In addition the article tries to answer the question whether the metaphor could be a part of the event of truth. Ascending the level of Christian theology the present reflections examine the possibility of metaphorical understanding of God. By making connection between the human reality of falling in love, betrothal and marriage on the one hand and the revelation of God on the other hand, it was imposed the problem of the crisis that the world falls into and the extravagance that all previously described venture conceals. The presentation of the possibility of thought-existential realisation of the metaphoric potential is the final step of these reflections that are hoping to encourage the creation of new meeting places between mystical experience, language expression, theological reflection and practical spirituality.
Keywords
“Christ the Bridegroom”; metaphor; truth; adequacy; extravagance; realisation
Hrčak ID:
111472
URI
Publication date:
27.11.2013.
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