Naslov
The Role of a Hebraic Concept of History in Shaping a Historical Way of Thinking

Autori
Lujić, Božo

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
BIBLIAÉRTELMEZÉS KOROK, MÓDSZEREK, KONTEXTUSOK ÍRÁSOK BENYIK GYÖRGY TISZTELETÉRE 68. SZÜLETÉSNAPJA ALKALMÁBÓL

Urednik/ci
Etelka, Szőny

Izdavač
JATE Press

Grad
Segedin

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
465-480

ISBN
978 963 315 442 7

Ključne riječi
history, cyclical thinking, linear thinking, genealogy, little historical creed, prophetic understanding of history

Sažetak
This article starts from the fact of today's general accepted cognition that in the past only two peoples had an understanding of history: the Greeks and the Hebrews. But their perception was fundamentally different. The Greeks understood history cyclically, based on the natural rhythm of time as the repetition of the same, while the Hebrews developed linear perceptions of history thanks to God's involvement in the history, through a series of events which were then interconnected and unfolded in a linear way. This process of shaping the historical way of thinking was lengthy and painstaking. It began by emphasizing the meaning of genealogy in life, and in the Hebrew language, called toledot, first within a family, then in clans and later in wider communities. Developing an awareness of one's own past as a connected process has created the bearing foundation of the present, and God's promises have opened the present to the future. Thanks to the Hebrew genius and the biblical way of thinking and reasoning, the perception of history as a linear process slowly took shape, which today has been generally accepted. The concept of the historical way of thinking has surely been one of the most important contributions of the biblical thought in shaping a contemporary perception of the world and life.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Teologija

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