By Joze Krasovec
This booklet offers with critical and common problems with present, punishment and forgiveness for the 1st time in a compact and entire manner. before those subject matters have acquired a long way too little cognizance in scholarly learn either of their personal correct and of their interrelationship. The scope of this examine is to give them on the subject of the principles of our tradition. those and comparable concerns are taken care of basically in the Hebrew Bible, utilizing the tools of literary research. The centrality of those issues in all religions and all cultures has resulted, besides the fact that, in a comparative research, drawing realization to the matter of terminology, the significance of Greek tradition for the ecu culture, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our sleek philosophical and theological structures. This extensive viewpoint indicates that the biblical personalist figuring out of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt offers the personalist key to the quest for reconciliation in a divided international.
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In its beginning, it is not yet the River; in its end, it is no longer the River. What we call its headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means? It is both one and many; it is the Mississippi of this book only after its union with the Big Muddy-the Missouri; it derives some of its character from the Ohio, the Tennessee and other confluents. And at the end it merely disappears among its deltas: it is no longer there, but it is still where it was, hundreds of miles to the North.
Because no agreement was universally accepted, marked inconsistences in the canon arose. So, for example, some communities retained the apocryphal and pseudoepigraphic works, while the highest Jewish authorities eliminated them. Similar controversies surrounded the formation of the New Testament canon. The Apocrypha of the New Testament were considered to be sacredand therefore survived--only in certain parts of the Church. The status of certain documents was, in fact, questioned long before the debate on the canon ever began.
This (divine) author wrote them (over a considerable period of time) by assuming a variety of authorial personae, each with its own distinctive character, historical situation, etc. As one moves, therefore, from one book to another one encounters a diversity of 'implied authors,' each of whom must be understood on their own terms; yet behind them all is a single, controlling intelligence, working to an overall plan. Because of this, these diverse works therefore can-and for a full understanding, must-be read together as a unified canon.