II Cor. 3: the old and new covenants
Recent documents from the Jewish-Catholic dialogue have raised the question about the relation of the two covenants, their salvific efficacy, and their continuing validity. II Cor. 3, a text renowned for its difficulties, proposes an analogy of glory which allows the old covenant to be subsumed into...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
2006
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Gregorianum
Year: 2006, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-63 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Corinthians 2. 3
/ Old Covenant
/ New Covenant
B Judaism / Christianity |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Corinthians 2. 3
B Divine covenant B New Covenant |
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| Summary: | Recent documents from the Jewish-Catholic dialogue have raised the question about the relation of the two covenants, their salvific efficacy, and their continuing validity. II Cor. 3, a text renowned for its difficulties, proposes an analogy of glory which allows the old covenant to be subsumed into the new. The new covenant's transcendence grounds the demand made upon Jews to remove the veil and turn with Moses to Christ. Yet the process of inoperancy attendant upon the old covenant, the reason for Moses' veiling, does not abolish it immediately; its operativeness remains within the new. Thus the Mosaic covenant, understood from the plenitude of Christ, serves to point prophetically to the new covenant and furnishes rules of conduct for Christians. Glory does not just characterize the new covenant externally; instead, because the new covenant is written on the hearts of believers, it effects a transformation of believers into Christ that is mediated by His historical appearance and the Eucharist. |
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| ISSN: | 0017-4114 |
| Contains: | In: Gregorianum
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