Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 80 No. 3, 2010.
Review article
The Priest: Homeless in the World at Home
Ivan Šarčević
; Franciscan Theology – Institution of Higher Education of Franciscan Province Bosna Srebrena, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
The rift between faith and culture is the experience of many contemporary priests. The first part of the article addresses the fundamental message of Jesus Christ, God’s kingdom, in particular considering the way it has been understood, rejected or accepted in Jesus’ world, by Jesus’ contemporaries. Against this New Testament background to the relation of Gospels and the world, two questionable models of contemporary ecclesiology and within them two types of priests are expounded. On the one hand there are priests as competitors to the world (secularization), and priests who see their only world as hostile towards them, the faith and the Church. However, based on God’s revelation in Jesus Christ and Jesus’ practice, the very humane (human being) is what is ultimately offered as a possible path that leads towards a prophetic encounter of Jesus’ Gospel and the world, Christianity and culture, Church and society.
Keywords
Jesus Christ; God’s kingdom; the world; mysticism; prophecy; ecclesiology; Priest; culture
Hrčak ID:
59704
URI
Publication date:
19.10.2010.
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