Jesus of Nazareth. From the entry into Jerusalem to the resurrection

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Pope Benedict XVI with Ferula (cross staff) at a church service in Munich, 2006

Jesus of Nazareth. From the entry into Jerusalem to the resurrection is the 2nd volume of the three-volume work Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI. about the figure and message of Jesus Christ . It was published on March 10, 2011 at the beginning of the pre-Easter Lent by Verlag Herder in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese with a total of 850,000 copies of the first edition.

Ratzinger exegesis

Pope Benedict XVI understands his book Jesus of Nazareth as a new beginning in theological exegesis . At the same time he emphasizes in the foreword to Volume 2 that his exegetical method , in which he combines two very different ways of hermeneutics , the interpretation of faith and the historical-critical interpretation , actually realizes those methodological principles that were already adopted by the Second Vatican Council - in which he had participated as theological advisor - were formulated for exegesis ( Dei Verbum 12). "This task was even more difficult in the second part than in the first, because it is only here that the decisive words and events of the life of Jesus meet", writes Pope Benedict XVI, who sums up the goals of his book on Jesus with these words: ".. I do hope that I have been given an approach to the figure of our Lord that can be helpful to all readers who meet Jesus and want to believe him. "

For detailed information on the Ratzinger exegesis and biblical interpretation of the book, see the Wikipedia article on Volume 1:

content

The 2nd volume contains 9 chapters:

  1. Entry into Jerusalem and cleaning of the temple
  2. The eschatological speech of Jesus
  3. The washing of the feet
  4. The high priestly prayer of Jesus
  5. The last supper
  6. Gethsemai
  7. The trial of Jesus
  8. Crucifixion and burial of Jesus
  9. Resurrection of Jesus from death

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Conversation about Jesus - Pope Benedict XVI. in a dialogue with Martin Hengel and Peter Stuhlmacher , Eds. Peter Kuhn , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen, 2010 (page 32): “I think it has become very clear that the certainty of belief is something different and has a different source than that historical certainty that it cannot simply be separated from this one. Because the verbum caro factum est belongs to our faith : The Eternal Word is flesh, has become earthly, historical reality and must therefore also be historically comprehensible in some way. This factum belongs in faith [...] which does not simply refer to eternal ideas, but to the verbum caro factum est? "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ak: The Pope and his book. In: Vatican Radio . March 12, 2011, accessed July 8, 2019 .

Bibliographical information

Title information
  • Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI .: Jesus of Nazareth - Volume 2: From Entry into Jerusalem to Resurrection , Verlag Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau - Basel - Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3451329999 .
Other volumes in the trilogy

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