Making the Bible a meaningful source of truth and salvation for contemporary man
Sacred Scripture contains the answers to the vital questions of the human being and the fundamental truths about his relationship with God, with others and with the world: how should it be presented to the sensibilities of contemporary man? If the Gospel is a proclamation of salvation, is it also attractive today while avoiding scandal and misunderstanding?
How do we bridge the gap, given that the understanding of this proclamation is necessarily mediated by a salvific history delivered to the people of Israel, a history whose hermeneutics is today difficult and no longer shared.
One wonders, for example, what role to attribute to an apparently violent image of God and what logic to assign to a ‘law of retribution’ that seems to operate also in history and not only in an eschatological key. Which biblical foundations and which historical-truthful contexts are to be preserved and which aspects, figures and modes of presentation are, instead, to be overcome? The Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ, the hermeneutic principle of the whole of Scripture, is certainly capable of intercepting every human being's demand for salvation, but its preaching must be constructed and contextualised in every age, beyond mere repetition.
In this context, between 14 and 15 November 2024, the second Expert Meeting of the Research Group ‘Towards a Theology of Evangelisation’ will be organised.
