Writing
The Schriftwerdung is a theological concept. It means, on the one hand, the transmission of divine revelation by people in written texts of the Bible , and, on the other hand, the constant growth of revelation in history through continuous acquisition of knowledge from the Bible.
Objective writing
In the Christian faith it means how the apostles, prophets and hagiographers handed down the revealed word of God in writing in the Bible through human words. The objective phase of the creation of the Scriptures, as well as the divine revelation to man, has been regarded as completed in Christianity since the end of the 1st century. The later canonization of the Holy Scriptures is not part of the concept of the Incarnation.
Postscriptual writing
This means the constant development and growth of revelation and the faith assigned to it in history through the continuous acquisition of knowledge from the Bible after the objective scripture became. This historical development of the Bible is described by Joseph Ratzinger as follows:
“Objectively, the writing is complete, but its meaning is conceived in a constant development throughout history, which is not yet complete. Like the physical world, it contains "seeds" - meaning seeds that are constantly growing over time. We are already able to interpret some things that the fathers were not yet able to say, because for them it was still in the dark of the future, while for us it is already a tangible past. Other things still remain dark for us. So new knowledge still grows out of Scripture, something is still happening in it, as it were; and this happening, this story, continues as long as there is any history. This is an important insight for the theologian, the interpreter of Scripture, because it proves that in his interpretation he cannot disregard history, neither the past nor the future. In this way the interpretation of Scripture becomes the theology of history, the illumination of the past becomes a prophecy of what is to come ” .
The discovery of this historical development of the biblical revelation comes from the work Das Figurbuch (1204) by a Bamberg monk whose name is unknown . Joachim von Fiore described this term in his Concordia veteris et novi testamenti , which was further developed as a theology of history by Saint Bonaventure .
Remarks
- ^ Joseph Ratzinger: Die Geschichtstheologie des Saint Bonaventura , habilitation thesis (printed form), Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich, 1959, p.