Course
LE01 - An Integrated Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus
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General Information
| Course Type | On Campus |
| Course Category | L03 Elective Courses |
| Description | Teaching Objective: The interpretation of the Parables of Jesus has reached, in the last thirty years, a level of maturation that makes it possible to synthesize the best aspects of traditional “allegorical” exegesis and modern “scientific” exegesis. This course aims at introducing the students into this mature synthesis, thus fulfilling, as far as the Parables of Jesus are concerned, the directive given by Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis no. 78 that “students should be introduced into the correct methods of exegesis”. Teaching Content: The interpretation of Jesus’ Parables in Church tradition; Adolf Juelicher, Charles Harold Dodd, and Joachim Jeremias; the New Hermeneutic, Structuralism with its Actantial Analysis, Reader-Response exegesis; Kenneth E. Bailey, H.-J. Klauck, Vittorio Fusco, and their mature exegesis of Jesus’ Parable as a story addressing (and so, symbolizing) a historical-salvific situation; a story both true-to-life and paradoxical; an oral-literary text with mostly a chiastic structure; a narrative with a triadic structure; a language event demanding a single-multiple and emotional-ethical response; a human-divine encounter that challenges humans to conversion to God in Christ; a human-divine encounter that judges humans, either saving them or condemning them, depending on their response. Teaching Mode: Lecture, Group Discussion and Personal Reading Assessment Mode: Oral |
| College Organization Structure | THEOLOGY DIVISION |
| Course Tuition Fee | 1500.00 |
| Course Combination | There is no records at the moment. |
