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Church in the World : Church in the World, Vol. 33 No. 3, 1998.

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Gospel of infancy - Jesus' descent

Marinko Vidović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-023X ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split

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Abstract

In this essey the author, starting from the fact that the Gospel of
Jesus' infancy (GJI) doesn't belong to the essence of Gospel's
announcement, analyses the reasons of this description and its
integration in the Gospel's narration. He finds the answer to these
questions in Luke's Prologue (Lk 1,1-4), where it is transparent that
these descriptions also belong to the Chrurch's announcement an
attempt to discover the traces and signs of the person's greatness that is belived in after the Easter, alredy in his infancy.
The fimdamental problem of GJI is its historicity. This problem
can be easily solved by the exact comprehension of history, which is
always the history interpreted in one key. The GJI is also the history
interpreted in the key of the Beginnings of Church confession. This
interpretation is justified by the peculiarity of christian tradition
which is determined by the fidelity to Jesus and continuous
actualisation of his life and activity.
In the context of Gospel's literary genre, which expresses the
theological dimension of an event in a narrative way, GJI has, as its
remarkability, the typological narration. In fact the salvation's events
from latter history are illuminated by the salvation's events from
former history in the Messianic key.
Observing the thematic congruency and the differences of
Matthew's and Luke's presentation, the author limits himself to the
analysis of Luke's GJI. First of ali, he presents the episodes of the
description and its structure using the literary criterion, and after
that he analyses, in the egsegetical way, the episode of the
annunciation of Jesus's birth, observing some new accents in the
interpretation: the peculiarity of Mary's maternity, the holiness of
child's birth, the role of God's word and Mary's joyous and desirous
collaboration with God.

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Hrčak ID:

51380

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/51380

Publication date:

21.9.1998.

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