With his new book the Pope interferes into the exegetische niche discussion around the shape of the historical Jesus. Everyone is free to contradict it. But the few will understand it.

(kreuz.net) cardinal Christoph beautiful fount of Vienna presented the book this afternoon in Rome „Jesus von Nazareth “.

It covers approximately 400 sides. The author is the work is Joseph Ratzinger - Benedikt XVI.

Benedikt XVI. still began before his choice to the Pope with the minute of the manuscript.

According to explained cardinal beautiful fount with the press conference that in the book the Pope does not speak:

„Also not the former cardinal, the bishop, the professor, the priest, but the simple believer, the Christian Joseph Ratzinger. “

In the preface particularly it is pointed out that it does not concern with the book an trainingofficial document. It is only „expression of my personal search `after the face Herrn'" - so the Pope.

Benedikt XVI. - after cardinal beautiful fount with its book goes on the market place of the countless opinions over the person Jesu. Therefore the holy father requests its readers equal to beginning to contradict his view from Jesus to:

„It is open everyone to contradict me. I ask the readers and readers only around that advance at sympathy, without which there is no understanding. “

For the liberal Wuppertaler Neutestamentler, Thomas Söding, shows up in the book a new style of the papacy:

„The deputy of Christ on ground connection formulates no dogma, but places its observations as a theologian to the discussion. “

The actual after Söding - „in a revolutionary manner “.

So-called historical-critical Exegese
Doubts about the representation Jesu in the gospels would not only come today of faith-far and church critics - so cardinal beautiful fount. Doubts would come also „from the own rows “:

„For over 200 years the historical Bible criticism questioned so quite everything, which is to be found in the Bible over Jesus. Its shape seemed to always dissolve in the diffuse one. “

The Pope deplores in his book that „a tear between `the historical Jesus' and `the Christ of the Glaubens' is developed “.

The church faith in Jesus Christ - so cardinal beautiful fount - appears as an additional „Vergöttlichung “Jesu of Nazareth, from which one knows actually hardly something safe.

Pope Benedikt XVI. deplores in his book:

„This impression penetrated in the meantime far into the general consciousness of the Christianity. Such a situation is dramatic for the faith, because its actual point of reference becomes uncertain. “

Defender and critic
Benedikt XVI. the so-called historical-critical method of the Bible interpretation knows - in such a way cardinal beautiful fount.

If the Pope is critical their opposite, so not from fear, but from „it justified and through-argued “conviction that she had to recognize their borders.

In the book the Pope points out that its reading is directed against the modern Exegese not, but in „large gratitude for many, which gave it to us “- allegedly - „and gives “.

With the ideology-loaded methods of the so-called „historical-critical Exegese “the Pope would like „Jesus of the gospels as the real Jesus, as which `historical Jesus' in the actual sense represents “.

The holy father believes that this shape regards many more logically and also historically is many more understandable than the reconstructions, with which we in the last decades was confronted - so the cardinal:

„I think that straight these Jesus - that of the gospels - is a historically meaningful and stimmige figure “- the church prince quotes the holy father.

In his work the Pope appoints himself on before thirty years the project „of the canonical Exegese developed in America “.

This method wants to understand the intentions of individual texts in the light of the whole holy writing:

„Always the whole Bible in such a way remains considerably for the interpretation of the individual place and does not disintegrate not into connectionless texts “, explains the holy father in the book.

Bulkily and high-complicates
The Vatikanist of the German daily paper `Welt' fears that the papal occupation with the historical-critical Exegese for many readers „“could become arduous.

The book is „a high-complex masterpiece “. It contains however unfortunately also „bulky sentences “.

For example the Pope writes:

„Volker Hampel means that Jesu ransom money word is to be deduced 53.10-12, but of Spr 21.18 not of Jes and Jes 43.3, which seems to me very improbably “.

A book in the word as „eschaton “or „the lived Kenose Jesu “no foreign words are, dedicate themselves to the argument with Exegeten.

Outside of the appropriate specialized min acres it will know no humans in Germany or Africa, America, Asia or Australia.

Large distances argue with predominantly Protestant German Exegeten of the last and next to last generation: Joachim Jeremias († 1979), Adolf of Harnack († 1930), Hartmut Gese (78) and not least OSCAR Cullmann († 1999).

Also the catholic Hw. Rudolf Schnackenburg († 2002) comes to word.

In addition, that volume contains theological novellas over the mountain lecture, the father our and the large equal nit.

The new book begins in Germany with a first edition of 200.000. It is translated into 32 languages.


Benedikt XVI. /Joseph Ratzinger:
Jesus von Nazareth. Of the baptism in Jordan up to the clarifying.
Herder, Freiburg.
24 euros
448 sides

Ministrant: @Athanasius

So long none of your ketzerischen bishops of the Hlg. Roman catholic and Apostoli church manages am content I.

Viennese: @ athanasiusII

pardon, but after the latter posting for their part it remains only stating me that they are obviously nothing else as a bad pig.
they lie, slander, throw with dirt around itself.
but they consider that evenly to them drops back and not on of them so with dirt the thrown.

pc. George: qathanasiusII

if they announce somewhat, to which they are silent, give it admit… such slanderers like it have hw. Mr. cardinal does not earn…

AthanasiusII: Scandalously

Which scandalous I find, is that this beautiful fount there again arises as a cardinal of the Hlg. Roman church. While it manages few days later again meal celebrations in youth churches with rock music, grape juice and other invalid subject (Fladenbot of the Dönerladens).

Dás is only thesis and anti-thesis.

[of the editorship zensuriert]. We are today in a worse time than z. Time Alexander VI., Honorius I. or Liberius. We are in a time of the Judasse and the fleeing Petrusse and scared Apostel.

Genoveva: People Fischer

The current topic is not a beautiful litmus test for the mental state substantial parts of the +.net forum.

„Shoemaker, remains thinking these people with your borders “and mean themselves „Pope - issue or other (above all one) Motu a Proprio, appoint efficient bishops and cardinals, sharpen `the true Lehre', but please, please, do not go to us not with Jesus von Nazaret on the nerves “.

Thus catholic rechtgläubige Gottlosigkeit looks.

B XVI. are not first manager and regent, but successor of the Apostels Petrus, which pulled by the half world, in order to report of Jesus von Nazaret.

But for the circle of acquaintances mentioned that is completely uninteresting. One has its Katechismus truths and for each inquiry its arrogant pseudo dogma tables saying, which one regards in its practice-substantial stupidity as appropriate Apologetik.

Udn if someone with the concrete doubts of its fellow men busily (because it knows it vitally), then one quatscht oneself something of one „offence against the virtue of the faith “. The Evangelisierung of the peoples seems so simple to be.

Aurelius: more @r.ruhrgebietler

Ratzi, that was probably nothing.

Did you already read the book?