Caro Roberto, cari amici del forum. Questo post apparentemente sconclusionato e criptico, nasce da una piccola disputa sorta fra me e un mio "amico" intorno all'interpretazione di un testo esegetico che riguarda il tema della resurrezione del corpo, e in particolare alla descrizione fornitane da Paolo in 1Corinzi 15 e in altri testi collegati.
Confidando nella vostra oramai provata serietà, vi invito a mettere da parte le idee che ciascuno di voi (testimone i Geova o no) ha riguardo a questo argomento, per concentrarvi solo ed esclusivamente su ciò che gli autori sotto riportati affermano. E se possibile vi chiedo di "spiegare", magari in modo schematico, quella che secondo voi è la loro visione del problema. In altre parole, vi chiedo di fare un'esegesi dell'esegesi in modo super partes e senza coinvolgimenti personali. So che è un lavoraccio e per questo vi ringrazio anticipatamente.
I testi sono i seguenti:
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"The significance of the resurrection of the "body" thus becomes understandable (1 Cor 15:35-44). The body, from head to foot, is all of my own person and distinguishes it from others. This includes what Luke 10:20 (cf. Isa 43:1) expresses in its reference to "name": Resurrection concerns "me" and is not a dissolution of my person into some general or collective element. "We," "our mortal bodies," are raised (1 Cor 6:14; Rom 8:11).
The other aspect, however, is decisive. With its eyes, ears, hands, and feet, the body is a means of communication opening me to others. As a body, I am thus indissolubly bound to Christ. This is why it is precisely the body that is raised, though admittedly such that it is transfigured and is no longer "flesh and blood." No imagery can adequately express this total otherness, so Paul not only distinguishes between seed and plant, human being and animal, earthly and celestial, but also refers to the infinite distinctions among plants, animals, and celestial bodies. What finally touches on the reality of this transformation is only the assertion that it is no longer the "soul" but rather the "Spirit" of God that creates, molds, and defines the new body (1 Cor 15:35-44, 50f.; Phil 3:21). Thus Paul can say that we will move from our (earthly) body, not into "nakedness," into a soul liberated from material substance, but rather into new "clothing," which is still a bodily housing for us (2 Cor 5:1-3, 8). In 2 Cor 12:2f. Paul reckons with the possibility of a person leaving the body while being carried away to the "third heaven"; it is unimportant to him whether it happened just that way. In any case, the life of resurrection is bodily, a life in fellowship with the Lord and one's fellow Christians established already before death itself, a fellowship finding its fulfillment in an inconceivable openness to the Lord (and to those similarly resurrected?). " (E. Schweizer in Balz-Schneider (eds.): Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, s.v. σῶμα, 5).
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"(b) Resurrection of the Body: Texts. The future life is bodily in 1 Cor. 15:35ff., but with a new corporeality and not just a new form. In 2 Cor. 5:1ff. we are tested and proved in or by the body but then are at home with the Lord in a new house that comes from God. In Phil. 3:21 the body of glory will replace the body of humiliation in union with Christ. In Rom. 8:11 God will raise up our mortal bodies (cf. 1 Cor. 6:14). Rom. 6:12 shows that we shall share in the resurrection, and 8:11 refers to redemption of the body, not from it.
(c) Resurrection of the Body: Theology. In 1 Cor. 15:35ff. life after death depends on the resurrection but as God's act, not as an ongoing of some part of the I. The same is true in 2 Cor. 5:1ff. and Rom. 6:12; 8:11 (also 1 Cor. 6:14). Awareness of theresurrection of the body implies responsibility regarding present life in the body. In Phil. 3:21 the term soÒÄma enables Paul to define as strongly as possible our association with Christ. As participation in Christ's resurrection, the resurrection is a blessing of salvation. The judgment involved in 1 Cor. 3:12ff. is one which condemns or praises the works of those raised up to life." (in Kittel-Bromiley: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, s.v. σῶμα, II (Paul), 1, a).
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ortodox
[Modificato da ortodox 16/11/2009 01:57]