Il sacrificio come chiave interpretativa dell’azione salvifica divina?

Questioni ermeneutiche

Abstract

This article starts off by asking if Sacrifice may be assumed as an interpreta-tive category in the Divine saving work. This research (of a hermeneutical nature) concentrates above all on the conditions which make a coherent re-reading of God’s initiative possible; and subsequently on how much the term Sacrifice may be able to satisfy these delineated conditions. Secondly the article recalls the Christian and every-day coordinates of the term in present use, capable of conditioning the creation of preconceived ideas which influ-ence every approach to the topic. Finally, the third stage, which meets the need to bring the two viewpoints together, shows the implicit difficulties in using a word distant from its original meaning and often unable to express the true Christian meaning it was intended to indicate.