Sárospataki Füzetek 19. (2015)
2015 / 4. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Enghy Sándor: Ézsaiás és Jeruzsálem. Jeruzsálem jelene és jövője az Úr szava és az Úr napja tükrében (Ézs 2-4)
van Houwelingen, Rob first scene of the fifth, giving hints of how the play is supposed to end. How could the actors play the whole drama, without a complete script for the final part? When they are familiar with Shakespeare, they are able to improvise, but they are not free to produce their own text. The best they can do is “entering into the story as it stood, in order first to understand how the threads could appropriately be drawn together, and then to put that understanding into effect by speaking and acting with both innovation and consistency”. Let us consider for a moment the Holy Scripture as a Holy Script, taking into account the redemptive-historical perspective. It tells the great story of God, who is both the author and the main actor. As Bible readers, we are involved in his story. The four known acts progress (simply put) from Creation through Israel to Jesus. Act five contains the whole period to the Eschaton, but from the New Testament we know only the first scene and we have a visionary description of the rest, namely the book of Revelation. So we find ourselves within the scope of the Bible, although the canon has been closed. Our performance has to be faithful to the previous acts. You have to play your role in line with the entire story and with the other actors. Bible reading has something of a dialogue: talking, listening, answering.25 God has both the first and the last word. He appeals to us and believers respond to what he says. This dialogue should take place within a personal relationship. Without faith we are left with a lifeless book; the Bible has nothing to say anymore. But because it is God who speaks to us by means of his written Word, the dynamic interaction between the triune God and the believer will drench the hermeneutical process. To clarify this, a circle may be drawn around the previously shown triangles: // TEXT y\ /? V \ \ / M3ADfr.fi I CON? EX I % \ HK.«ne«* C0NTEXX2 / Thus, the Bible has to be our spiritual property, carefully carried in our hearts. We search the fellowship with God in his Word, by maintaining a personal relationship of faith with him and his Son Jesus Christ, as living members of a congregation 25 "God authorially interacts with human beings in dialogical fashion," concludes Vanhoozer, Kevin J.: Remythologizing Theology, Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship, Cambridge, University Press, 2010, at the end of chapter 6 [337], 70 Sárospataki Füzetek 19. évfolyam 2015-4
