viernes, 16 de agosto de 2013

"such a one reads reality like a book"



"The Portuguese theologian Fernando Belo has derived from this, among other passages, a praxis of Jesus that he calls the practice of hands, feet, and eyes. Within his structuralist reading of the Gospel of Mark he sets the practice of hands in relationship with the action level of the text. Jesus´action has healing effect because he overcomes the debt economy through a praxis of giving. Among Christians this is called love of neighbor. The practice of feet he connects with the strategic level of the text, that is, with conversion, which makes one a disciple of Jesus and thus leads one toward the royal reign of God, where the first become last and the servants are the models. The utopian dimension of this praxis, which also achieves a geographic dimension as the Church spreads, is the kernel of Christian hope. Finally, Belo associates the practice of eyes with the analitic level of the text. Whoever has eyes to see penetrates the machinations of the powerful and recognizes the structures of death in society; such a one reads reality like a book. And whoever reads the gospel with such eyes recognizes that Jesus´ praxis is messianic and rich in blessing: it is what Christians call faith. Accordingly, the God of Jesus is a God who hears peoples´s cries and, as so vividly described in Revelation, personally dries the tears on their faces (Rev 21:4). "The hairs of your head are all counted" (Matt 10:30), says Jesus, and he means that this God gazes on the children of humanity tenderly and with gentle care·" 

(Thomas Staubli and Silvia Schroer, "Body simbolism in the bible")


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