Author: P Antonio Rivero LC Church is open to all men: the Church "Catholic." For the Church were to do this "catholic" and not a sect within Judaism, God used especially of the Apostle Paul. He understood that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was the Good News to all men and drew the consequences, exceeding the narrow barriers aimed at limiting the preaching of the Gospel enclosing it within a religious exclusivism was only given the people of Israel.
- Throughout its history the Church has always been illuminated by the words of Saint Paul, for both the Magisterium and theologians necessarily have used their cards to further and propose the doctrine of the faith. Many theological controversies have developed in their texts throne and great saints have nurtured their spirituality in the reading of the Pauline letters. Understanding, then, this titan of Christianity, so that through him, get to know Jesus Christ and the passion to preach with the same courage that Paul himself.
meet one of the most important figures of the missionary expansion of Christianity and doctrinal exhibitor.
- II. OBJECTIVE LIVING: Living what St. Paul tells us: "Be my imitators, as I am of Christ "(1 Cor 11, 1).
-
III. THESIS: San Pablo is one of the most fascinating figures of the New Testament and early Christian character of that we have more historical data. His letters are the most famous match of all time. They are also chronologically, the earliest New Testament writings and therefore we provide the first data on the origin, structure and development of a number of Christian communities to twenty or twenty years from the start of Christianity. His apostolic activity was the main objective of the foundation of Christian communities and thus extend the Church of Christ and the message of salvation brought by Christ.
IV. EXPLANATION OF THE THESIS:
- 1. Your
- born in Tarsus of Cilicia, to the year 10. Jewish race and religion, but of Greek and Roman citizen. His basic training was Jewish. He studied in Jerusalem and in the school of Gamaliel, the old man. At first it was a total rejection of believers in Jesus and launched a fierce persecution, as passionate Pharisee, believing that Christians were a sect against the law of Moses. But one point of his life, circa 36 AD, had a mysterious encounter with Jesus of Nazareth, the road to Damascus, and became a propagandist of the Message of Jesus.
The first
by Cyprus and southern Asia Minor (years 45-48).
The second 
The third for Galatia, Phrygia, Ephesus, Macedonia and Greece (years 53-58).
A fourth voyage
from Caesarea to Rome by sea, made Paul a prisoner of the Romans.
2. Points of his doctrine
a)
Justified by Faith: as a Pharisee, Paul believed to be justified or saved by detailed practice of law. I thought they were "his" works that made him righteous before God. Now discover that only Christ with his death, it just man, a free. It is not, therefore, "worthy" of salvation but "receive" Christ faithfully adhering
109.
b)
Grace of God:
Paul has experienced the gratuitous love of God. He has discovered that God loves us not because we are good, but to be good. This is the source of joy and security to Paul.
c)
Jesus Christ crucified:
the cross, illuminated by the resurrection is at the heart of Paul. At the foot of the Crucified, Paul feels a sinner, but forgiven. Paul's Jesus is always the Crucified Christ (letter to the Philippians).
d)
The Church, the Body of Christ:
3. Problems and Paul had difficulties faced
a)
One problem:
A Jewish-Christian church or a new church? That is, who entered the nascent Church, what had to be circumcised and keep the whole law of Moses ... or open to a new reality, a new style? For this first council met in Jerusalem with Peter at their head and the other apostles and decided by the light of the Holy Spirit was not necessary to be circumcised. b) Challenges:
misunderstandings and false accusations everywhere and from his own Jewish brothers and the pagan Greeks and Romans. Jail, where he wrote several letters. Martyrdom in Rome, beheaded, about the year 67, during Nero's persecution.
4. Features of the Pauline communities
a) communities are settled in the Hellenistic world.
This offered many advantages, it was the religious world, but also brought the threat of a hedonistic paganism, attractive and easy to religious cults, customs conflict with the gospel. Now understand the continual warnings, recommendations and Paul calls attention to those communities. b) Most of them were locked in the coastal regions of the northern Mediterranean
(Asia Minor, Greece, Italy), within, both the Roman Empire. Both Paul and his colleagues sought to establish Christian communities hubs in cities linked by a strong communications network. Thus favoring the contact and dialogue among Christian communities. c) are established in urban communities
in contrast with rural communities palestinenses. Paul is certainly not the founder of Christianity, but Christianity is the creator of urban with all that this event would mean for the evolution of Christianity.
d) Among the cities where they settle, the natural area is home communities. home communities are coming together in homes to celebrate their faith and nurture it.
e) are communities made up of Christians of both Jewish and pagan origin. This led, initially, their difficulties, but were overcome with Christian love.
f) are communities where, with the enthusiasm and heroism, is this sin. were not holy communities, but communities that wanted to be holy, with strengths and weaknesses, with wonderful examples and sins. But this is the Church of Christ, holy and sinful at the same time holy and in need of constant conversion.
5. Characteristics of his letters
In what language are written:
Paul's letters are written in Greek "common" language that, in addition to Aramaic, easily dominates. Paul, in general, dictated to a scribe or clerk. Some cards, like writing to Philemon was written by his own hand. But He always sort through and put the final salutations to the letter.
b) End of his letters:
Paul served his letters to communicate his theological and spiritual mystery of Christ. Today, Pope Paul also follows this tradition of sending letters of a theological and spiritual support to all the faithful of the world.
c) How many and what :
are 14, including the Letter to the Hebrews. Paul's own are considered: the first to the Thessalonians, two to the Corinthians, the Galatians and the Romans, that of the Philippians and Philemon. Of the others, though not the same Paul, Pauline clearly written in circles, that is, by disciples of Paul (Colossians, Ephesians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus and 2 Thessalonians), written after Paul's death. Have divided and his letters
kerygmatic Letters:
1 and 2 Thessalonians (year 50-51). Great
letters: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians (56-58).
captivity Letters: Philippians, Colossians, Ephesians and Philemon (61-63).
Pastoral Letters: 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus (67), with this nickname because of his pastoral concern to establish hierarchy and community organization.
d)
Scheme: Paul's letters are in accordance with the scheme of the ancient letter: heading, the body of the letter or message and the final salute. However, in developing this scheme, Paul is almost always deeply original. The newness of the Gospel through all and, from start to finish, Paul's letters exude Christian life. None of artifice or empty formula.
e)
Style:
Use all stylistic devices: paradox, metaphor, rant and especially the antithesis. Also used exhortations and advice. f)
Material used:
includes material already formulated: hymns 110
, confessions of faith 111
, catalogs of virtues and vices 112
A theological pluralism in his letters, that is, talking about various topics.
No looking in the Pauline letters a systematic theology for two reasons: first, because the historical moment it was in Christian reflection made it possible, and second, because the epistolary genre was not the most appropriate for this . So Paul's theology is a theology in process, specifically as it responds to specific questions.
not built on nothing but fall back on traditions that were running around.
is made His training as Jewish, the abundant use of quotations from the Old Testament. Use the typological interpretation, ie, the ratio-comparison between the events of the Old Covenant and the new.
V. CONCLUSION: After the third trip, was arrested and taken to Rome, where no doubt his release by the year 63, although since then the last four years of his life are in the dark. Apparently he went to Spain (Rom 15, 24 and 28) and made another trip to the East. He died in Rome, beheaded by the executioner of Nero, AD 67, on the same day of the martyrdom of St. Peter. Its buried in the basilica of St. Paul in Rome. PRAYER: Lord, give me the same passion for you and for the salvation of souls that had St. Paul, I also wear and wear me, to see everyone you know and love you and follow you . Amen. __________________________ This teaching developed in the letters to the Romans and Galatians. cf. Phil 2: 6-11, Col 1, 15-20
cf. Rom 1, 2-4, 1 Cor 15: 3-4
See Gal 5, 19-23, 1 Cor 6, 9-10
cf. Rom
3, 10-18
2. Why is it said that the present Church through the Pope and bishops, San Pablo has imitated in form preaching?
0 comments:
Post a Comment