Figure di sacrificio in epoca patristica

Abstract

The use of sacrificial language is a given widely certified by the first Chris-tian authors to describe the redeeming death of Christ and of Christian moral behaviour. This article aims to highlight the hermeneutical strategies employed in dissociating the sacrifice of Christ and of Christians from the connections with Jewish ritual and pagan superstition. From the Patristic period onwards, it is therefore possible to find some criteria to offer to to-day’s theological research on the use of the references to the world of sacri-fices in the proclamation of the faith and that of Christian morals.