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2020nova18-2revelationsacramental
Journal article

Understanding Revelation according to a Sacramental Mode

BHT

  • 2020
Published in:
  • Nova et vetera. - Project MUSE. - 2020, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 443-459
Vatican II
Dei Verbum
Revelation
Words
Deeds
Christ
Sacrament
Mystery
propositional model
symbolic model
Biblical theology
English Through the analysis of four key passages of the constitution Dei Verbum (nos. 2, 4, 14, 17) of the Second Vatican Council, the article defines the sacramental mode of divine Revelation, as a function of three distinctive features: the close interaction between words and actions, the access to the depth of the mystery, the anticipation of the mystery made present. The correctness and relevance of such a definition of the mode of Revelation are then subject to two evangelical “verifications”, one drawn from Mk. 1-4 and the other, Jn. 6. The theological fertility of the test is to avoid several typical dichotomies in fundamental theology with respect to divine Revelation, including those between a propositional model and a symbolic model. The sacramentality of Revelation is not a model to be added to the list of models. At a lesser degree of abstraction, it describes the operating mode of Revelation.
Faculty
Faculté de théologie
Department
Département des Sciences de la foi et des religions, Philosophie
Language
  • English
Classification
Religion, theology
License
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Open access status
green
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330476
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