Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 92 No. 1, 2022.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.92.1.2
Was ist der Mensch? (PS 8,5). Zum neuen Dokument der Päpstlichen Bibelkommission über biblische Anthropologie (What is Man? (PS 8,5). On the New Document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission on Biblical Anthropology)
Levente Balázs Martos
orcid.org/0000-0003-3795-0352
; Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Religious Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
On December 16, 2019, the Pontifical Biblical Commission published its latest document under the title «Che cosa è l’uomo?» (Sal 8,5) Un itinerario di antropologia biblica (What is Man? A Journey through Biblical Anthropology). This document offers a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the topic named in the title on more than 300 pages. This survey offers a general presentation of the document in four steps. The intellectual and theological horizons form a dialogue in the document, which presents exegetical insights to theologians, the faithful, and to all men and women in today’s society. The structure of the document proves to be decisive as it unfolds the truth of the »beginnings«, the foundational narrative in Gen 1-2 in light of later Biblical tradition and experiences of human history. Exegetical methods and questions are further elaborated in the document, and it also provides a deeper insight into the situation of children. The relationship of parents and children seems to represent the essentially theological nature of the text. In this relationship vertical and horizontal dimensions of human life are combined: vertical in the sense of our relationship with God, but also with the past and the future, and horizontal in the sense of our relationship with other human and nonhuman beings in the present.
Keywords
Biblical Anthropology; narrativity; sapiential theology; creation; human family
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280870
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Publication date:
22.7.2022.
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