"JESUS: A BIOGRAPHY" OF ARMAND PUIG CATALAN Catholic theologian, concerned with the historical Christ
By: Carlos Subosky
puzzles were always about Jesus, his life and work. Are the four Gospels canonized by the church-Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are objective historical sources?, "With existing sources, you can draw an accurate picture of Jesus?," Reason and faith can be combined in an investigation historical? Here are some of the questions answered Catalan theologian and priest Armand Puig his book "Jesus: A Biography," published here by Edhasa. According to scholars, the book is part of what is called "the third investigation into the historical Jesus." This line of work, unlike others, takes account of Jesus as a Jew and its relation to the early Christian community. It also has a less rigid interpretation of the Gospel sources. Puig
goes even further, accompanied by historical accuracy with the faith and the spiritual message of Jesus, placing it in historical context and the social, political, religious and economic in the first century Palestine Puig advantage sources Christian-like non-canonical gospels, but also Jewish, Roman, Hellenistic and Islamic. His book is "a critical biography," said Puig, who missed the recent archaeological discoveries. This Catholic priest visited Buenos Aires and presented his book at the Universidad Católica Argentina. He told Clarín that from the "many sources, the historical existence of Jesus is undeniable." He added: "The approach to Jesus church in many trials is through the confession of faith. That is, one believes in Christ, so I read from this perspective. In my case the previous step is because I think a gospel is an ancient text, a Christian, that allows access historical Jesus. This will try to do regardless of religious conviction of my potential readers. What I do is to approach Christ with all the instruments I have in hand to find the profile of what was historically. "
Puig said that" talk and not to deny the faith, but to explain from a historical standpoint. It told the story of Christ if the faith, but not necessarily from the readers. I am a believer, but had no reason to prejudge the outcome of history. So I come to Jesus, with all the love in the world but also with historical accuracy.
Does not detract from the religious message of historical accuracy when applying to a work that presents a vision of faith, cosmology and philosophy, as the Gospels? The theologian believes that "the problem is that faith has to take account of the story. Belief is not a leap in the dark. The Christian faith is not hypnosis, it is not esoteric knowledge.'s Accession to someone who was born He lived and died in this world. Therefore, believe in it means knowing their lives and their history. " And it highlights: "When Jesus speaks in precise terms of a way of life, he does in his time as a Jewish century, but also does it in universal terms. We can say that Jesus more universal is the Jew of all time. "
For books like" The Bible was right "by Werner Keller, the priest Puig believes that Keller and the like" trying to defend the Bible, whereas the idea my book is to understand Jesus. I do not want to make an apologetic. If I wanted to do then try to prove that everything the Gospels say is something strictly accurate. This is not what interests me. What matters to me is that through these texts come to understand Jesus. And understanding someone is not defending or attacking, but to understand ".
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