Tollerare o sradicare? Il dilemma del discernimento

La parabola della zizzania nell' Occidente latino da Ambrogio a Leone Magno

Abstract: "Since Constantine times, western patristical exegesis has paid the parable of tares a constant attention, but has given it an incoherentinterpretation. Ever more so, the original meaning of the parable - to affirm the secular mix of good and bad, to reserve to God or to his Messiah the ta...

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Author:Gaetano Lettieri
Published: S.n., s.l., 2005
Volume:26
Pages:65-121
Language:Italian
Periodical:Cristianesimo nella storia
Number:1
Format:Article
Topic:- Works > Studies on Vocabulary/Themes > Exegesis
- Doctrine > From man to God > Divine revelation > Exegesis > [Exégèse des textes du Nouveau Testament] > [Matthieu] > Mt 13 > Matt 13,24-30
- Doctrine > From man to God > Divine revelation > Exegesis > [Exégèse des textes du Nouveau Testament] > [Matthieu] > Mt 13 > [Matt 13,36-43]
Status:Active
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Summary:Abstract: "Since Constantine times, western patristical exegesis has paid the parable of tares a constant attention, but has given it an incoherentinterpretation. Ever more so, the original meaning of the parable - to affirm the secular mix of good and bad, to reserve to God or to his Messiah the task of discernment and of judgement, to invite the community to be tolerant towards the sinner - becomes neutralized by means of other biblical authorities, and hence betrayed. It prevails the will to constitute a pure chruch, from which it is possible to purge the tares of heresy and of sin thanks to implacable theological vigilance of the bishops and the repression by the political power now converted. On the other hand, from Tyconius to Jerome, from Augustine to Peter Chrysologue, the need to recover the original meaning of the parable is not missing, although it is (in a more dramatically tension) inextricably linked to the ecver-cleaver tendency to affirm the civitas as God's reign on earth."