tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9009856935092851185.post6891731695650340778..comments2023-10-25T07:10:02.714-07:00Comments on sense of the sacred: On the MagnificatGeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090680129606569116noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9009856935092851185.post-76757277092132285932010-12-30T08:46:06.226-08:002010-12-30T08:46:06.226-08:00Interesting to me because I'm aware of the pre...Interesting to me because I'm aware of the premier Catholic Biblical scholar, Fr. Raymond Brown ( appointed to the PBC 1972/ again in 1996...deceased 1998) having annoyed the heck out of me in his "Birth of the Messiah" (pages 348 onward) wherein he stated a disbelief that Mary ever said the Magnificat but Brown proferred instead that Luke got it from Palestinian anawim and Luke was just trying to make the passage look like OT precedents of women receiving a mission and then exclaiming in verse thereafter. Brown supplied no proof but simply conjectures front to back, stem to stern. Good to see Benedict didn't buy into that sideroad. The Pope though was non unscathed from the excesses of modern hermeneutics. Both he and John Paul II leaned in later years toward more and more non violence which made John Paul see the OT death penalties as coming not from God but from unrefined Jewish culture ( Evangelium Vitae section 40) whereas Scripture clearly states that God mandated them to all men for murder (Genesis 9:6) and to the Jews only for personal sins (Leviticus and Deuteronomy). Likewise Benedict seems in Verbum Domini section 42 to totally<br />reject the "massacres" of the Old Testament ( which would include the God mandated dooms of the Canaanites one would logically infer) and he proceeds to state that "the prophets rejected every form of violence" on the other hand.<br />However Elijah slit the throats of 450 prophets of Baal; Eliseus brought about the death of 42 boys whom he cursed ( not personally offended but in view of his role as prophet...per Aquinas; and the prophet Samuel "hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal" because Saul did not do so per God's doom on the Amalekites. Benedict then was referring to the exilic and post exilic prophets and is overstating therein also since the Maccabees later acted courageously within a just war.<br /> But I am pleased that Benedict sees Mary in a way other than Brown as to the Magnificat....ie that she really said it. I'll take what I can get.bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.com