"If we solve the problems of faith by the only authority,
While we possess the truth but an empty head"
St. Thomas Aquinas, Sum theological
Faith of coal, this attitude of trusting abandonment to God, the Church and their representatives, is honored in the Church because it defines the fundamental Christian faith which is primarily a action of the heart, an unconditional adherence to God revealing his plan of salvation.
Magister Jesus was not a novice nor a school of spiritual formation. It was not the primary purpose of reviving the faith. Like all the faculties of theology, he was part of the tradition of the Church of Revelation make intelligible to the human intellect of all time.
For us, it should peel the raw data learned since childhood to make them intelligible and most try to discover the scope and meaning that could have this revelation in a world in flux. Here's the gist from what I've chosen and who is still after more than 50 years.
Dogmatics with Carolus Molari .
A prodigy funambulesques balances among factions who were playing their powers and their swords to impose their faith or their church supremacy over others. And through this connection at least as mixed as ours, caucuses have led to consensus that still apply today. The dogmas of the masterpieces of human genius
The term " homoousios " gathered together all these disparate elements and was enshrined in the creed that rallied the majority Council Fathers. This credo was some time professed to all congregations of Christian believers. It was called the Nicene Creed . In
Christology he had to follow a reverse approach: arranging two natures in one person, And then the term "Theotokos" (Mother of God) who rallied ll fathers of the council, making the Virgin Mary The JEM of God (the mother of the only person of Jesus, endowed with both human nature and divine nature) and not just the mother of Jesus Man.
How reason Can these concepts deal apparently in-compatible with each other? How many endless debates, arguments and quibbles tight he had to come up with acceptable wording for the reason that made consensus and diversity in Christian communities? Initially, these discussions might seem outlandish, and we fetched. Molari had a gift for us to discover the foundations of faith and they lit the accuracy of the formulations that were released.
is through these exchanges and explanations that I realized that the Christian faith and religion which was not confined to a vague message of love so beautifully wrapped it was, or a few recipes life pre-cooked. It was comforting to think that every article of the creed was passed through the mill and informed minds than the ardent faith. My admiration for the Church and its history will be an enormous.
The transcript of the courses were not very nourishing for the faith. I realized that times and for a long time and for some it was more important to have a proper definition of faith and good-stand and profess well as in life. As in his bourgeois-miles, the habit was more noble than blood or faith. I also understand that without this stifling structure and poorly adapted to our time, not rigor dogmas, fruit discussions often Byzantine, the message could have revealed fraying of vague and multiple expressions of religious sentiment without much real scope and our evolving world and for each of its believers.
Holy Scripture
They were the richest and most meaningful.
Despite all the warnings of anti-modernist, " School French Biblical and Archaeological Jerusalem " founded in 1890 had already borne fruit.
The discoveries of the manuscripts of Qumran caves (1947) had given a great boost Bible studies. Up 'At that time, studies of the Bible were more spiritual than analytical. Every word of the Bible was the sanctity of the Bible itself. The Bible had been changed since the fifth century in the translation of the Vulgate. Isaiah finding almost entirely in the amphorae from Qumran, biblical writings took the "human" dimensions that we did not dare give them.
So, the good news of salvation was not a sacred word of God but the story of his presence, his incarnation in the human history. Little philosophy on the eternal nature of God, but many facets of his presence, modulations in the infinite relations that tied with men in their lifetimes. Job, Moses or Jacob, David, Hosea and Isaiah went out Staff sacred where they had nested for animated and live live before us a struggle for survival in the presence of the Lord. They resumed indefinitely on all construction sites in the world, those of war and of peace, those of authority and submission, those of education and of prayer, on all facets of human life They resumed a relationship that is always compromised and reconnect with God always present. Qumran has transformed the reading of sacred texts in a cinema in three dimensions: God, man and time. And in this charged atmosphere, the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem who had headed a suspect of Modernism, Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange, OP, (2) after scholarly research and an undeniable contribution to the humanities, published in 1958, the Holy Bible that would fundamentally alter the reading of scripture and the interpretation of the revealed message.
In this period, studies, journals, Bible literature abounded. I am very pleased to have started studying the Bible in an atmosphere of extraordinary excitement.
Two teachers scored above me in scripture: Spadafora and Beaucamp.
Monsignor Francesco Spadafora (3)
Italian, professor of Scripture at the Lateran, he was a biblical scholar well versed in the study of ancient languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
He went to the root of words, extracted the deeper meaning related to the context of time and used it as a beacon that lit up entire pages more or less obscure sacred texts.
Thus, with the "hurly burly " (4) of the first chapter of Genesis on the creation of the world, the whole story and all the dogma of the creation of a lighted new light much richer than the chi-quenaude divine beings who showed "ab nihilo " like a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat.
I also learned from him the most " nephesh " Hebrew term which has been translated the breath of life. " Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being." (Gen . 2.7). With scholasticism, we were imprisoned in categories that were still the pair: matter and form, body and soul, substance and accident, essence and existence.
Spadafora's explanation about the " nephesh " made me under-stand that the biblical concepts traveled often trinity. Thus, in humans there was inert matter (mud), the sensitivity and nephesh (the breath of life, the breath of the spirit). It occurred to me that trying to understand man and his mysteries by Categories of Aristotle made us miss an important dimension that could be enlightened by its coherence even both the mystery of the Holy Trinity, that of the human person, that of love and participation in the divine life.
Archimedes said "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world. "With a word , Spadafora raised the meaning of life, and also that of Revelation. Deo gratias Spadaf!
Franciscan, plump and happy as the birds of God, he played a triumphant exuberance of life and expressed on the biblical texts of new ideas into words dynamite not entangled in the "religiously correct .
" A clap of thunder in a summer night " is the title of his presentation which covered the prophet Amos. For courses that brought us to the heart of the life of Israel, the father Beaucamp drew the image that seems to define the best prophet, the journalist-columnist who apply to give meaning to events.
Prophets steeped in politics and values of their times have tried to find them a meaning, that of their faith, God's. This sense, they expressed in a language that was not sacred, that did not come from heaven, which was the language of terroir in which they lived and that people understood without needing scholarly exegesis. A prophet who speaks in this language of men is more revealing of God and his revelation that an alien would have spoken the language of God that nobody could understand.
Apply this referred to Hosea, whose wife lives of prostitution or Ezekiel who collects bones or deported to Babylon Daniel sings in his fiery furnace in Babylon or the Apocalypse that some have seen as the forerunner of the misfortunes of our time, locate all the texts of the Bible in their time, you, without you enfarger in the flowers of the carpet, a key to understanding Revelation is revealing. Spadaf, Molari Evode and my professors at Trinity Jesus Magister. They introduced me to understand the mysteries of Christian theology. This understanding was not only logical and rigorous as that of a theorem. She was also appreciative and enthusiastic as that of a discovery. Alongside these " entrees " other courses were only side dishes flavored variable.
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(1) Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange, OP died in 1938. Under his leadership the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem had already pushed scholarly exegetical research the texts of the Bible.
(2) Monsignor Francesco Spadafora Commission member Pontifical Biblical is a consultant to John XXIII especially regarding the inerrancy in the Bible.
(3) Hurly burly - and empty desert - Gen 1.2
Next issue: 25 - Update and review
(2) Monsignor Francesco Spadafora Commission member Pontifical Biblical is a consultant to John XXIII especially regarding the inerrancy in the Bible.
(3) Hurly burly - and empty desert - Gen 1.2
Next issue: 25 - Update and review
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