Review article
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.25.1.4
The Pericope on the Cornerstone and the People of God – the Royal Priesthood in the First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter 2:4-10)
Mario Cifrak
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Vedran Pavlić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-7318
; Karmel – Remete, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The First Epistle of Peter in the pericope 1 Peter 2:4-10, in speaking about Christ as the cornerstone and the People of God who are called here the royal priesthood, reveals a specific Petrine ecclesiological image. The ecclesiologically relevant results in this paper are achieved through exegetical analysis using the techniques of hermeneutics of the Old Testament in the New Testament, through exegetical analysis with the contextualization of the more important motives in the pericope and through further exegetical and biblical-theological analysis based on the literature of Biblical exegetes who have commented on this pericope. The important motives that are found in this pericope do not have only their New Testament context with the Christological or ecclesiological meaning and implications, but also their Old Testament background, context and semantics. The motive of royal priesthood, which in this pericope points to the entire People of God, to the Christian believers, so the whole Ecclesia, has been interpreted incorrectly in the circumstances of the 16th century Reformation (especially 1 Peter 2:9), which led to theological misrepresentations on the dogmatic field. The Second Vatican Council cited this pericope in its documents (SC 14, AA 3, PO 2, AG 15, and particularly in: LG 6; 9; 10; 34) interpreting the ecclesiology with expressions from the pericope among which the images of the Church as the People of God and the royal priesthood, i.e. the universal priesthood of the baptized, are especially significant.
Keywords
First Epistle of Peter; cornerstone; the People of God; the royal priesthood; the hermeneutics of the Old Testament in the New Testament; the ministerial and universal-baptismal priesthood
Hrčak ID:
178858
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Publication date:
31.3.2017.
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