Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 85 No. 2, 2015.
Original scientific paper
The Prophetic Messianism. The Christian Message Opened to Judaism (Acts 3:22-23; 7:37SS)
Marinko Vidović
orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-023X
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
Starting from the basic salvation-messianic directedness of the Biblical revelation, the author of this article presents, firstly, a short overview of the development of messianic expectations in the Old Testament, claiming that these are progressively directed towards the Messiah or messianic times who/that is/are not marked by power, but suffering and solidarity with other people. In the next step the author describes the character of Moses and his involvement in messianic expectations. The structural analogy of events of salvation in the Old Testament and the New Testament has allowed us to recognise in Moses a messianic character, who found his realisation in Jesus’ life and work. After that, the article discusses the recognition of Jesus’ prophetic messianism in the gospels, especially in relation to the Prophet who has been announced by Moses in Deut 18:15.18. Since Peter’s and Stephen’s discourses in the Acts of the Apostles use texts for expressing Jesus’ prophetic messianism, before the author proceeds to a detailed analysis of these texts, he presents some general observations on discourses in the Acts of the Apostles, in whose context Jesus’ prophetic messianism has an important role. At the end, the author provides a detailed analysis of Peter’s and Stephen’s discourses, marking that Moses’ typology, and Jesus’ prophetic messianism that is based on it, could have been useful as an important locus for Jewish recognition and acceptance of Jesus’ messianism. In both discourses Jesus’ prophetic-messianic identity, that has been announced by Moses, is used to convince Jews that the Messiah had to suffer, according to God’s plan, and that with his prophetic way of life and by being rejected by the people, but accepted by God, he has fulfilled God’s promise on the definitive salvation, which is already active in the history, but whose final end is being expected in the parousia of him who has been exalted by the Resurrection.
Keywords
Messiah; messianism; Moses; Moses’ typology; the Prophet; history of salvation; Jews
Hrčak ID:
141174
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2015.
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