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C'era una volta un teologo...

A theologian lit a lantern in broad daylight, he reached the town square and began to shout: "I am looking for the man! Seeking man. " In a flash, doors and windows flew open on all sides and a chaotic swarm of voices and noises wrapped the theologian. After a moment of dismay, the theologian took courage, he polished his glasses and began to look a bit 'better around him.

Dall’osteria a due passi, un gruppo di persone, tutti intenti a giochicchiare con palloncini colorati, tra cui spiccava un certo Funky Bob, gli si rivolgeva animatamente: “E’ qui, è qui al party che scherza e si sollazza con vino e porchetta insieme a tutti noi!”.

E subito la voce gentile di un omino esile di nome Dominique Croissant, lo corresse affettuosamente: “Dai vecchio Bob, non essere così gretto! Sì, d’accordo, cibo, bere e perfino cure gratis per tutti sono una gran cosa. Ma non banalizziamo: quello che veramente accade qui dentro è molto di più: è una rivoluzione, è un mondo alternativo in cui tutti siamo fratelli. Un mondo proprio as it would a good God. "

BUUURP! Suddenly, the friendly words of Dominique were interrupted by a noise cavernous, coming just two steps away, out the door of the inn, where two individuals were looking messy and not very reassuring. One pissed against the wall, the other he was crouched in a barrel, imperturbable whistling a tune, regardless of all the fuss going. The first turned out, listless, half a word to the theologian: "Burp ... my name is Burton Crack. Who is he likely to try - said, nodding with a slight movement of the head to his friend in the barrel - or maybe not. For each so, who cares. "

"But shut up, talking head! - Interrupted him to turn another guy coming from the center of the square - with the farce of this your elusive middle-class indifference, do not you do that the game of the powerful. " "Good day, mate! - Then turned to the theologian - My name is Richard, Richard "the horseman," and who are looking for is there, in the midst of that crowd, you see? We are making a popular assembly, is all over the country ... or so ... because we are one - so he says -, end our disputes, and understand that only gaining a true class consciousness farmers will be able to resist .... "

"But resist what, who, good man? Fees, the oppression of the wicked priests subservient to the king, not to mention the bigottume men of the law? "- He added ironically an elegant man, well educated, though with a Texas accent jarring - but come on, look around: do you really believe that life here is worse and more intolerable than elsewhere? And then where would all these taxes and this phantom angry crowd of which you are talking about? Good man, everything I can to see it instead of the big and little look at the same law, attend the same communal bathrooms, and when time e impegni lo permettono, salgono sullo stesso autobus per andare alle grandi celebrazioni in città!”.

“Buongiorno! – disse a quel punto l’uomo ben educato, rivolgendosi al teologo -. Il mio nome è Edoardo Parrocchia S. e non ho potuto fare a meno di sentire che stavate cercando qualcuno. Purtroppo non so dirvi dove ora si trovi. Tutto ciò che so, e che ritengo sia possibile sapere con un ragionevole grado di probabilità, è che è stato qui e che si è creato un piccolo seguito a cui promise un grande destino in un qualche “regno” che si sarebbe dovuto manifestare molto presto. Certo era un sognatore, ma non mi risulta in ogni caso che abbia mai avuto grane con nessuno, e, checché what is said by others, the last time we saw him - at the temple down in the town, intent, apparently, to overturn two or three tables - I doubt that really meant to make trouble or controversy, rather than simply giving vent some utopian impulse of his spirit. Although perhaps, after all, that could not have been the most prudent of ideas .... " "Provided that it has actually done something in the temple, Ed!" - Interrupted by a passer-by looks very nice. "All right, Paula, all right" - he replied, smiling good-naturedly.

And then a man came up immediately and soft-eyed sad, named Dale Jr., or just Junior, who, nodding, followed on the words of the Texas gentleman, "Yes, I saw it too. It was just a dreamer, and his words of hope I was enchanted. We were all filled with the highest enthusiasm, and it was as if his promises of bliss and solution of all evil and injustice, a world completely renovated and transformed, with no more tears and mourning, they were already materializing in front of us. But everything is over and everything has remained exactly the same as before. And though all those hopes were not in fact nothing more than dreams, I believe, however, that it is precisely in the name of these dreams, and only them, that worthwhile to continue to live. "

"Oh, stop whining Dale with them - broke a vigorous man of large tonnage from the oval head and bald, who advanced in ecclesiastical dress, strode from the cathedral -. But it is possible that you're still so soaked in crass literalism that he sees everywhere the end of the world of space-time, and men flying in the clouds? On the Come with me, and so you too - flying back to the theologian said - inside the church, we sit in the chapel of San Schweitzer and you re-explain again the story of its founding. Yes, because you need to know that our church was actually born to the man whom you seek, rather, is veramente la piena, perfetta e insuperabile realizzazione di tutte le sue profezie di redenzione e di giudizio che erroneamente tu, Dale, intendevi in senso cosmico. Ma fidati di me, che so riconoscere una buona metafora quando ne incontro una: lui non parlava d’altro che dell’abbattimento del vecchio tempio giù in città, ormai troppo logoro per poter essere restaurato, e della conseguente erezione della nostra bellissima cattedrale e della nascita del vero popolo di Dio, che io, vescovo Nicola Tommaso il Giusto, ho la grazia di poter guidare”.

Il teologo si fermò a contemplare ammirato la grandiosa maestà della cattedrale, ma dopo poco il suo sguardo non poté fare a meno di spostarsi su di un altro edificio, ancora più monumentale del primo, ma che a differenza di questo non aveva per nulla l’aspetto di un luogo sacro. Era piuttosto un palazzo immenso, composto di quattro enormi piani, e che al tempo stesso sembrava però essere ancora incompiuto, un cantiere aperto, quasi che non potesse smettere di continuare a crescere all’infinito, fino a toccare la cupola del cielo.

D’un tratto, da ognuno dei balconi dei piani del palazzo, si affacciarono quattro omini tutti uguali, magri e dal volto pallido, con enormi paia di occhiali demodé, e tutti portavano sul capo una strana mitra non-papale. “Salve!” – esclamarono in coro, sorridenti e affabili, i sedici omini -. “Io sono Giovanni Paolo il Cattolico” – soggiunsero i primi -; “Io sono Giovanni Paolo il Protestante” – fecero eco i secondi -; “Io sono Giovanni Paolo l’Agnostico” – aggiunsero i terzi; “Io sono Giovanni Paolo l’Ebreo” – dissero infine i quarti. “Siamo chiusi qui dentro da sedici anni in conclave – proseguirono tutti all’unisono – con lo scopo di ricreare in laboratorio l’uomo che anche tu stai cercando. Entra pure se vuoi: al primo piano potrai trovare il suo scheletro, al secondo la sua bocca e qualche suo sputo misto a fango, al terzo ci sono gli elenchi di tutti numeri telefonici che ha chiamato e di quelli che non ha chiamato. Al quarto, poi, i cui lavori sono da poco terminati, potrai udire spezzoni di noiose discussioni legali che ti consentiranno di apprezzare la nostra più certa e straordinaria conclusione: l’uomo che cerchi, non era americano! Ma se vuoi saperne di più, ti consigliamo di accomodarti nell’atrio e aspettare che terminiamo il nostro conclave. Ci metteremo un po’ forse, ma presto o tardi ne usciremo, non temere!”.

A queste ultime parole, il teologo cominciò a sentirsi mancare. Aveva le traveggole e gli pareva di delirare. Vedeva i sedici omini occhialuti guardarlo dall’alto con il loro imperturbabile sorriso, e, girandosi intorno a sé, si accorse che anche tutti gli altri interlocutori precedenti had never ceased to follow him and whispering in the ears of their speeches. And, worse still, as far pushed his eyes, and a lot more people saw flowing from every direction, and everyone is waving and shouting: "It 's here! And 'here! You can find it from us. "

Finally, everything started to blur the theologian and the last thing he saw was the flame of his lantern off.

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Eins, Zwei, Drei – A chi serve la sistematizzazione della ricerca su Gesù?

If there is anything in the world of studies on the historical Jesus that I find difficult to understand is the timeless mania historiographical periodization and systematize storia della ricerca.

Illuminante da questo punto di vista è il nuovo libro di Giuseppe Segalla La ricerca del Gesù storico (Queriniana), che riprende il diffuso schema First/Old Quest – No Quest - Second/New Quest – Third Quest, incentrandolo non più diacronicamente sulla successione di “fasi” quanto piuttosto sull’individuazione di paradigmi metodologici ed epistemologici che possono ripresentarsi in epoche diverse.

Essi sarebbero essenzialmente tre: 1) il paradigma illuministico (prima ricerca); 2) il paradigma kerygmatic (new research), and 3) the paradigm of postmodern Jewish (third study), which adds a Segalla chronological stage of transition between the Enlightenment and the paradigm kerygmatic (corresponding to the so-called period of "no quest").

The first of these would be representative as well as the pioneering work of Strauss and Reimarus and the lives of Jesus "liberal," even by the reaction to these Eschatological by Weiss and Schweitzer. And not only following, perhaps James Dunn (see The memory of Jesus vol. 1, pp. 69-74), Segalla in this paradigm also includes the recent sociological interpretations of Jesus by Horsley, Theissen and Herzog and anthropological to Crossan, Fish and Aguirre, just as examples of "social liberalism".

kerygmatic The paradigm includes the two movements instead of reverse and complementary kerygmatic succeeded in theology: an escape from history (Kähler, Bultmann and his recent recovery from Luke Timothy Johnson) and a return to history, known to be represented by the work of the disciples of Bultmann (Käsemann, Bornkamm, Robinson), but also from a recent scholar of Japanese artist Takashi Onuki ( Jesus. Geschichte und Gegenwart , Neukirchener Verlag, 2006).

Finally there is the general paradigm of postmodern Jewish Third Quest, which according to the author, presents a clear and distinctive identity in historiography, as well as methodological and theological.

From historical point of view, this paradigm would be characterized by the recognition of the impossibility of a purely objective of the historical attitude towards its subject (objectivity that can not therefore be claimed by more than historical non-believer believer, in fact) is no longer monolithic and pluralistic vision the Judaism of Jesus' time, holistic approach (sayings and deeds) and abandonment of the analytical treatment of the individual traditions about Jesus in favor of a comprehensive view of him and each other (Segalla but note that this is not the case of Meier).

From methodological point of view, the new paradigm is characterized by the use of a wider range of sources, both indirect (the writings of Qumran, Nag Hammadi, literature intertestamental) and direct (non-canonical gospels, which, however, are not felt by Segalla, in the wake of Meier, historically unreliable, or irrelevant) to the rethinking of the traditional criteria of authenticity and methods for the contribution of sociological, anthropological and literary. Finally, from a theological point of view, the paradigm of the Third Research is characterized by the distinction, but at the same time for the link between method el'inseparabilità historical and theological method, since faith is an integral part of the historical evidence about Jesus and that historical investigation helps to understand the development of Christological faith.

Segalla is instead a bit 'vague when it comes to illustrate the characteristics but not the real players in this paradigm. Certainly not the Jesus Seminar scholars belonging, which are instead classified as a recovery Before the search, with influences of the Second. Without a doubt are Sanders and Charlesworth, and Meier, whose work is explicitly judged the best of the Third Research, despite the fact that his analytical approach is diametrically opposed to the "overview" (the Sanders) that should be typical of the Third Research. Segalla probably include, among the members of the paradigm and also Puig i Tarrech Pagola, as well as Dunn and Bauckham, though about the latter he is uncertain whether we should speak of a "second front of the Third Research" or a true quarter paradigm.

Now, one can be more or less agree or disagree with this historiographical representation of the proposed research by Segalla and that he identifies with the characteristics listed in the different paradigms (and limiting myself to just one of the alleged third search, I doubt that we can actually recognize all those convergences in historiographical, methodological and theological Segalla that it has identified.) But what I wonder is, even if we accept it, what do I gain? What is its usefulness? My opinion is that it does not lead to anything other than a series of labels that will not only greatly abstract provide no insight positive, but even likely to be ambiguous and misleading.

What I gained when I put in the same pot Enlightenment and liberal (or neo-liberal) Reimarus, Strauss, Renan, Weiss, Schweitzer, Theissen, Horsley and Crossan, and in another pot postmodern Sanders , Meier, Puig i Tarrech, Dunn and Bauckham? These traverse help to better understand the positions of the scholars in question? Or rather, are made at a level of abstraction that represent little or nothing of them, or worse, to lead the reader to specialized reviews with no real foundation?

Frankly non mi riesce proprio di capire come si possa pretendere di dare un contributo positivo di conoscenza, quando si sussumono 230 anni di ricerca e centinaia di studiosi in tre grandi barattoli. Penso che si possa fare della buona storiografia rinunciando a grandi generalizzazioni e limitandosi a fare accostamenti, individuare filoni e tracciare tendenze nella misura in cui ciò si rivela effettivamente significativo. L’identificazione di modelli e paradigmi può essere utile solo entro un certo grado di astrazione, oltrepassato il quale si ha solo il flatus vocis .

Nel complesso, l’impressione che mi sono fatto di questa schematizzazione Research (consciously teaching) offered by Segalla, is that is nothing but a handbook for use by theologians who have not or the time or desire to engage with the great diversity, plurality and inconsistency of approaches and results that characterize the landscape inevitably research. As a recognition of the research for what it really is, would be virtually useless for the theologian, then you try to pack a ghostly third research which shows a much clearer identity as non-existent at the level of historiographical assumptions, methodologies and epistemological relationship with faith, so that the theologian is satisfied and can begin to build on it.