Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 83 No. 3, 2013.
Professional paper
True State of Faith: A Chasm between Nominal and Living Faith
Ivan Šarčević
; Franciscan Theology – Institution of Higher Education of Franciscan Province Bosna Srebrena, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
The Article insists on the fact that Jesus Christ is the benchmark of faith for Christians and that it is impossible to achieve the complete correspondence between orthodoxy and orthopraxis, without a remainder. In this regard, the first part of the article undertakes to explain Jesus'warning to his disciples on the yeast/teachings of Pharisees, Herod and Sadducees. By analyzing Jesus' attitudes towards the religious and political mainstream of his day - Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots and »Herod«, Roman authorities and Sadducees - the argument portrays Jesus' nonconformity with religious and political mainstream of his time. The second part uses the correlation method to describe the current »illusive« forms of immutable faith within the Church and society through Jesus' preaching and practice. Chasms between nominal and living faith are discussed through the three intrinsic components of Christianity: the Eucharist, theology and the cross. In the end, on the basis of the Gospel and the applied correlation between Jesus' and our own context, the article expounds on the essential characteristics of the faith of a Christian.
Keywords
Jesus; yeast/teachings; Pharisees; Sadducees; Essenes; Zealots; Herod; the Church and the world; immutable faith; the Eucharist; theology; the cross
Hrčak ID:
109820
URI
Publication date:
25.10.2013.
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