Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T07:53:26.933Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

About the word ‘revelation’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Jean‐Pierre Jossua OP
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In the Hebrew, Jewish and Christian religions—for there are three religions, the Hebraic, the Judaic and the Christian, and not one or even two, just as there are two new testaments, the Christian and the Talmudic, and not one alone—everything begins with a ‘word’ of ‘God’ and remains founded on that primordial or very topical utterance. A human statement, embodied in a language, concepts and images, is understood as a pronouncement so ‘inspired’ by ‘God’ that we may call it ‘the word of God’. (In a fourth religion of the same family, Islam, the word practically ceases to be human, and that position, regarded by Muslims as fundamental, has been a constantly recurring temptation for the preceding faiths).

Type
Research Article
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 72 , Issue 847 , March 1991 , pp. 124 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 ‘Herméneutique de I’idée de Révélation’, in La Révélation, Faculté S. Louis, Brussels 1977.

2 La révélation divine (Unam sanctam, 70). Cerf, Paris 1968.

3 ‘Hérméneutique philosophiyue et herméneutique biblique’, in Exegis, Delechaux et Niestlé, Paris 1975, pp. 201–28.

4 See Paul, A., Le fait biblique, Cerf, Paris 1979, pp. 23–59Google Scholar, and Inter-testament (Cahiers Evangile, 19).

5 Exegetische Versuche and Besinnungen, Güttingen 1960 and 1964 (partly translated into French and English). For example. ‘Le canon du NT et I’unité de 1’Eglise’ (1951). ‘La justice de Dieu chez Paul’ (1961).

6 See E. Levinas, ‘La révélation dans la tradition juive’, in La révélation divine, op. cit.

7 See P. Ricoeur, ‘L’Herméneutique du témoinage’, in Le témoinage, Aubier, Paris 1972.

8 See Note 1. The symbol, being extensive. may be the narrator’s poetic language, and 50 on.