Autor: Crowe, Frederich E., S.J.

Buch: Theology of the Christian Word

Titel: Theology of the Christian Word

Stichwort: Hypothese: Frohe Botschaft wird Wort Gottes (Osterbotschaft - Lukas); Agens: Frauen -> Gott selbst

Kurzinhalt: ... hypothesis that the Christian message, which we now know as the word of God and take for granted under that heading, was not originally so conceived, but was simply the joyful message,

Textausschnitt: 22a The sequence here is based on the hypothesis that the Christian message, which we now know as the word of God and take for granted under that heading, was not originally so conceived, but was simply the joyful message, the good news of salvation in Christ; only later did it come to be known as the word of God. There is a prima facie case for that hypothesis in the evident difference between the way the communication of the holy women was received on the first Easter and the attitude that Luke takes toward the same message sixty years later. The story the women told on returning from the tomb is regarded as a babbling and incoherent account of some experience they may have had. Sixty years later Luke takes it for granted that this story, now greatly expanded but built round the same nucleus, is quite simply the word of God; as he has Paul and Barnabas declare to the Jews of Pisidian Antioch: "It was necessary [...] that the word of God should be declared to you first" (Acts 13:46). (Fs) (notabene)

22b However, that prima facie case must be substantiated by more thorough examination of the situation before and after the transition to the new conception; and, if we cannot pinpoint the event itself of the transition, we have at least to raise the question of its time, place, and circumstances. Further, there is a special need in this chapter to notice the fact that we are not dealing merely with the content of the message when it is specified as the word of God. Beyond that, the very act of utterance is specified as God's activity; and this second aspect will have its own fateful role to play in the history of the word. Accordingly, this chapter will be divided into two parts, to deal first with the transition from message to word of God, and then with the notion of God as active in the communication of his word. (Fs)