Pluralism in the Holy Scriptures

Svjestan poteškoće koju sa sobom nosi pokušaj da se jednim jedinim pogledom obuhvati široka tema pluralizma u Svetom pismu, autor pre­dlaže tri susljedne razine čitanja rečenog fenomena, držeći ih različitima, ali istodobno i komplementarnima. Prvi dio ovog teksta proučava pluralizam kakav se očituje u procesu formiranja samih biblijskih tekstova. Naime, ti su tekstovi, premda posje­duju prepoznatljivu individualnost, sastavljeni od mnoštva kompozicijskih elemenata, koje ne razara, nego određuje jedinstvo objave i knjige koja je prenosi. Drugi dio ovog teksta premješta se na razinu Isusove povijesti, o kojoj izvještavaju evanđelja, da bi pokazao kako je Isusovo ponašanje prema strancima i ljudima izvan njegova kruga moguće shvatiti pluralistički. Naime, Isus zna uvijek dohvatiti ono što u dubini povezuje njegove sugo­vornike s njime, a da pritom ne obezvrjeđuje i ne potiskuje međusobne razlike. Treći i zadnji dio ovog razmišljanja nastoji sagledati odnos između završnog poslanja, koje predviđa nužni angažman učenika na sjedinjenju svih ljudi u znaku jedinog evanđelja, i pluralizma kakav je živio Isus iz Nazareta (tretiran u drugom dijelu), odnosno fenomena nesumnjivog plura­lizma, koji karakterizira sadašnji biblijski tekst (kao što to proizlazi iz prvog dijela).The author, aware of the difficulty how to take in by one look the extensive topic of pluralism in the Holy Scripture, proposes three levels of reading the Holy Scriptures, considering the levels different but at the same time also complementary. The first part of this text goes into the matter of pluralism as it is shown in the proces of forming biblical texts themselves. Namely, those texts, though they have recognizable indivi- duality, are composed of a great number of the composition elements which do not destroy but determine the unity of revelation and the books that transmit it. The second part of this text puts itself on the level of Jesus\u27 history, about, which the Gospels report, to show how Jesus\u27 behaviour towards strangers and people outside his circle is possible to understand in the pluralistic way. Namely, Jesus always knows how to attain that what in the depth connects his coUocutors with him, but, for ali that does not underestimate or repress interacting differences. The third and the last part of his reflection tends to observe relation between the final mission, which anticipates necessary engagement of the disciples on the uniting of ali people in the sign of the only Gospel, and pluralism how it was lived by Jesus from Nazareth (as it is said in the second part) in other words phenomenon of pluralism which characterizes today\u27s biblical text (as could be seen from the first part)