Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 92 No. 1, 2022.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.92.1.1
Theological Anthropology and the Bible. The Main Guidelines and the Document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission »Che cosa è l’uomo?« (Sal 8,5). Un Itinerario di Antropologia Biblica
Nedjeljka Valerija Kovač
orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-1951
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article studies the importance of the Bible in dogmatic theology, primarily through the prism of unity, structure, and contents of the tractate titled Theological Anthropology. The author offers a thorough reading of the new document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission »Che cosa è l’uomo?« (Sal 8,5): Un itinerario di antropologia biblica (2019.). The article presents contributions to and inspirations of that document for Theological Anthropology and it points out some differences and deficiencies in terms of contents. The most common points can be noticed in the thematic area of the human beings as God’s creation in his/her earthly existence and responsibility. The biggest difference between that document and Theological Anthropology consists in the fact that the document is very brief on the anthropological aspect of God’s salvation in the sense of the transformation of human beings by Divine grace and of human beings’ directedness toward the eschatological fullness of life with God.
Keywords
Theological Anthropology and the Bible; Book of Genesis; human being as the image of God; food; work; animals; relation between man and woman; original sin.
Hrčak ID:
280872
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Publication date:
22.7.2022.
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