Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week
Jesus of Nazareth. From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection is the second volume of the three volume work Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI. about the person and message of Jesus Christ. He appeared on 10 March 2011 to the beginning of Lent from the publisher Herder 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 new in the theological exegesis. At the same time he emphasizes in the preface of the second tape that his exegetical method, in which he combines two very different ways of hermeneutics, the interpretation of the faith and the historical-critical interpretation together [note 1] actually realized that methodological principles, which already by the Second Vatican Council - were formulated for exegesis ( Dei Verbum 12) - in which he had participated as a theological consultant.. " This task was in the second part even more difficult than the first, because only here will you find the crucial words and events of Jesus' life ," writes Pope Benedict XVI, who sums up the aims of his book Jesus in these words:. " ... then I hope that I move closer to the figure of our Lord has been given, which can be helpful to all readers who encounter Jesus and to believe him. "
- Hermenutische basis and Exegetical classification
- Biblical interpretation and concept of the book
Content
The second volume contains nine chapters: