The Ideological Originality of the Interpretations of Saint Augustine on Selected Gospel Parables
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https://doi.org/10.31802/BSCH.2022.3.2.008Keywords:
sermon, the Gospel of Luke, parables, the Church, the Body of Christ, leaven, field, grain, chaff, donatism, exegetics, hermeneutics, ecclesiology, sacramentologyAbstract
Based on an exegetical analysis of one of the sermons of the saint (sermo 111), the article reconstructs the historical situation and theological context of the use in the Latin exegetical tradition of such gospel parables as: the parable of the leaven (Lk. 13, 21–23), about mustard grain (Lk. 13, 19), about the sower (cf. Jn. 12, 24), about wheat and chaff (Mt. 13, 30). As a result of the study, it was found that saint Augustine, as an interpreter of the Holy Scriptures, follows in line with the modern and preceding tradition, but fills well-known comparisons, metaphors and allegories with a new — mainly polemic — meaning and pathos. In a polemic with the Donatists, the image of the Church as the Body of Christ and a fertile niva (field), in which wheat (faithful children of the Church) and chaff (heretics) are mixed among themselves, becomes for the preacher the most important tool in defense of traditional — truly biblical — teachings: on the example of hermeneutics, ecclesiology and sacramentology.
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