"Y al entrar en la casa... vieron al niño" ["And to enter in the house... saw child"]

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Author(s)
Reyes Archila, José
Keywords
Matthew
Children
Childhood of Jesus
Jesus’ messianism
GE Subjects
Community ethics
Biblical Theology
Bible (texts, commentaries)
New Testament
Biblical hermeneutics, Interpretation of the Bible

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/189762
Abstract
"Mateo, como Lucas, elabora un relato con características míticas sobre la infancia de Jesús, con el propósito de mostrar la identidad y la plenitud del mesianismo de Jesús. El Cristo, el salvador, es el Emanuel, Dios niñito con nosotros. El ser un niñito perseguido connota la plenitud de su mesianismo. Esta característica se torna espejo y modelo pedagógico para la comunidad, es necesario entonces, “volverse y hacerse como niños pequeñitos”, como condición para entrar en el Reino de los Cielos (Mt. 18,3). Sin embargo, esta dimensión propia de la espiritualidad de la comunidad de Mateo, ha estado ausente en la exégesis del evangelio. En este artículo buscamos precisamente rescatarla como un hilo conductor o clave de lectura que nos ayude a revelar los sentidos latentes presentes en el evangelio, profundizando en su sentido sociológico, espiritual y teológico, con el propósito de aportar un granito de arena a la fundamentación de una hermenéutica infantil de la Biblia." "Matthew, like Luke, constructs a tale, with mythic characteristics, about the infancy of Jesus, for the purpose of showing the identy and the plenitude of Jesus’ messianism. Christ, the Saviour, is also Emmanuel, God a tiny baby with us. His being a persecuted tiny baby connotes the plenitude of his messianism. This characteristic becomes a pedagogical mirror and model for the community; it is then necesary to “become like little children” as a condition for entering the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 18,3). However, this dimension which is proper to the spirituality of the community of Matthew has been absent from the exegesis of this Gospel. In this article we seek precisely to recover this as a golden thread or key to reading which may help us to reveal the latent meanings wich are present in the Gospel, getting deeper into their sociological, spiritual and theological meanings, with the intent of bringing one tiny grain of sand to the task of establishing a children’s hermeneutic of the Bible"
Date
1997
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Article
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