A hermeneutic of justice. Justice as discernment in Matthew

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dc.contributor.authorWelzen, Huub
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-15T13:49:38Z
dc.date.available2016-06-15T13:49:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn some important dictionaries for the study of the New Testament, δικαιοσύνη has two meanings: justice in the sense of distributive justice and righteousness as a relational notion. In Matthew, we discover that the word concerns a threefold loyalty: loyalty to the law, loyalty to fellow people, and loyalty to the will of God. In the Sermon of the Mount, the word is used in a polemical context. Δικαιοσύνη is the congruency of the explanation of the law and doing the law. It is the opposite of ὑπόκρισις which is the incongruence of explanation and doing. Δικαιοσύνη is an eschatological reality. This means that it is a result of the coming of the kingdom of God in history. This coming is thought to occur at the end of time, but it is also a reality in the present. One can observe it at work in the conduct of people. It is a criterion in the discernment of the correct explanation of the law, and it is a criterion in the discernment of the correct doing.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWelzen, H. (2013). A hermeneutic of justice. Justice as discernment in Matthew. Acta Theologica, Supplementum 17, 89-109.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1015-8758 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2309-9089 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/actat.v32i2S.7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/3108
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Theology, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Theology, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectBiblical spiritualityen_ZA
dc.subjectSpiritual hermeneuticsen_ZA
dc.subjectDiscernmenten_ZA
dc.subjectThe Gospel of Matthewen_ZA
dc.subjectThe Sermon of the Mounten_ZA
dc.subjectJusticeen_ZA
dc.subjectNew Testamenten_ZA
dc.titleA hermeneutic of justice. Justice as discernment in Matthewen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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