Conference paper
Pluralism in the Holy Scriptures
Ermengildo Manicardi
Abstract
The author, aware of the difficulty how to take in by one look
the extensive topic of pluralism in the Holy Scripture, proposes
three levels of reading the Holy Scriptures, considering the levels
different but at the same time also complementary.
The first part of this text goes into the matter of pluralism as it
is shown in the proces of forming biblical texts themselves.
Namely, those texts, though they have recognizable indivi-
duality, are composed of a great number of the composition
elements which do not destroy but determine the unity of revelation
and the books that transmit it.
The second part of this text puts itself on the level of Jesus'
history, about, which the Gospels report, to show how Jesus'
behaviour towards strangers and people outside his circle is
possible to understand in the pluralistic way. Namely, Jesus
always knows how to attain that what in the depth connects his
coUocutors with him, but, for ali that does not underestimate or
repress interacting differences.
The third and the last part of his reflection tends to observe
relation between the final mission, which anticipates necessary
engagement of the disciples on the uniting of ali people in the sign
of the only Gospel, and pluralism how it was lived by Jesus from
Nazareth (as it is said in the second part) in other words
phenomenon of pluralism which characterizes today's biblical text
(as could be seen from the first part).
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Hrčak ID:
51427
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Publication date:
21.1.1997.
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