“Rethinking the Jewish War: Orientation to the Debate,” in Anthony Giambrone, ed., Rethinking the Jewish War (66–74 CE): Archeology, Society, Tactics, and Traditions. Études bibliques 84. Leuven: Peeters, 2021: 1–32.
“‘So that You May Know the Truth’ (Luke 1:4): Luke 1-2 and the Lying Historians,” in Simon Butticaz, Luc Devillers, James Morgan, and Steve Walton, eds., Le corpus lucannien (Luc-Actes) et l’historiographie ancienne: Quels rapports? Théologie biblique 2. Zurich: LIT, 2020: 135–58.
“Schweitzer, Lagrange, and the German Roots of Historical Jesus Research,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 17 (2019) 1–25.
This study helps critically distance future scholarship from the rhetorical and religious agenda ... more This study helps critically distance future scholarship from the rhetorical and religious agenda of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus, with the corollary aim of problematizing the widespread 'Three Quests' heuristic, so dependent upon it. The pronounced ambitions and strongly marked German Protestant social location of Schweitzer's project will be exposed by calling to witness a very early, yet widely neglected reception of his work: Marie-Joseph Lagrange's The Meaning of Christianity according to German Exegesis (1917). The quite different, though no less contextualized socioreligious location of this French Catholic priest will serve to highlight some significant phenomena obscured by the standard picture of the history of Jesus research, above all its deep theoretical roots in the Radical Reformation.
Viliam Stefan Dóci and Thomas Prügl, eds., Bibelstudium und Predigt im Dominikanerorden: Geschichte, Ideale, Praxis. Rome: Angelicum University Press, 2019: 307–23. , 2019
Modern interpretation of the Holy Scripture, especially historicocritical exegesis must crash wit... more Modern interpretation of the Holy Scripture, especially historicocritical exegesis must crash with the classical dogmatic approach. The case in which this crash is unavoidable is the historicity of Jesus Christ and his miraculous deeds. For contemporary mentality miracles are definitely strange so it is not surprising that such kind of interpretation of the Gospels, in which miracles taken literally are excluded, has been occurring for few ages now. Today, we see a debate between exegetes who are deeply engaged in modern rationalistic paradigm and the ones who try to be faithful to the Church testimony in the first place. This article argues that modern exegesis must lead to the leap of faith. Only faith can affirm the truth of the Gospel, taking aside the question of historical character of Jesus’ miracles. Ultimately, the case of Jesus is mainly about faith, not only about historical research.
“Rethinking the Jewish War: Orientation to the Debate,” in Anthony Giambrone, ed., Rethinking the Jewish War (66–74 CE): Archeology, Society, Tactics, and Traditions. Études bibliques 84. Leuven: Peeters, 2021: 1–32.
“‘So that You May Know the Truth’ (Luke 1:4): Luke 1-2 and the Lying Historians,” in Simon Butticaz, Luc Devillers, James Morgan, and Steve Walton, eds., Le corpus lucannien (Luc-Actes) et l’historiographie ancienne: Quels rapports? Théologie biblique 2. Zurich: LIT, 2020: 135–58.
“Schweitzer, Lagrange, and the German Roots of Historical Jesus Research,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 17 (2019) 1–25.
This study helps critically distance future scholarship from the rhetorical and religious agenda ... more This study helps critically distance future scholarship from the rhetorical and religious agenda of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus, with the corollary aim of problematizing the widespread 'Three Quests' heuristic, so dependent upon it. The pronounced ambitions and strongly marked German Protestant social location of Schweitzer's project will be exposed by calling to witness a very early, yet widely neglected reception of his work: Marie-Joseph Lagrange's The Meaning of Christianity according to German Exegesis (1917). The quite different, though no less contextualized socioreligious location of this French Catholic priest will serve to highlight some significant phenomena obscured by the standard picture of the history of Jesus research, above all its deep theoretical roots in the Radical Reformation.
Viliam Stefan Dóci and Thomas Prügl, eds., Bibelstudium und Predigt im Dominikanerorden: Geschichte, Ideale, Praxis. Rome: Angelicum University Press, 2019: 307–23. , 2019
Modern interpretation of the Holy Scripture, especially historicocritical exegesis must crash wit... more Modern interpretation of the Holy Scripture, especially historicocritical exegesis must crash with the classical dogmatic approach. The case in which this crash is unavoidable is the historicity of Jesus Christ and his miraculous deeds. For contemporary mentality miracles are definitely strange so it is not surprising that such kind of interpretation of the Gospels, in which miracles taken literally are excluded, has been occurring for few ages now. Today, we see a debate between exegetes who are deeply engaged in modern rationalistic paradigm and the ones who try to be faithful to the Church testimony in the first place. This article argues that modern exegesis must lead to the leap of faith. Only faith can affirm the truth of the Gospel, taking aside the question of historical character of Jesus’ miracles. Ultimately, the case of Jesus is mainly about faith, not only about historical research.
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