신앙의 유비

• Published in: Gatolrig sinhag gwa sa'sang no. 72; pp. 140 - 176
• Main Author: 안소근(Ahn So kun)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: The Society of Theology and Thought 30.12.2013; 신학과사상학회
• Subjects: 가톨릭신학; 계시 헌장; Dei Verbum; 성경 해석; Analogia fidei; 해석학; Analogy; Hermeneutics; 신앙의 유비; 유비; Biblical Interpretation; 계시 헌장?
• ISSN: 1225-4924; 2508-3104

Some magisterial documents including Dei Verbum(no.12) indicate the analogia fidei as one of the Catholic principles for interpreting Scripture. To understand the meaning of the term analogia fidei, this article investigates the history of the formation of some notions related to it. In the history of philosophy, analogia was first used by the Pythagoreans as a mathematical term. By Socrates and Plato analogia was considered as a principle of the order in universe, a centre which unites various elements of it. Such an understanding was systematized by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas who distinguished analogy form univocity and equivocity. According to them, analogy makes it possible to attribute a predicate to different subjects which have some similarities, and the analogia entis has a special importance for metaphysics which treats the being as a being. In biblical hermeneutics, Church Fathers as Ireneus and Clement of Alexandria indicated the regula fidei as a principle for the biblical interpretation to confute some heretical interpretations of the time. In this point they were founded on the belief in the recapitulatio of the whole salvation history in Jesus Christ. After the Reformation, the Protestants rejected the analogia fidei with the conviction that the biblical interpretation should not be limited by other norms and the Scripture alone should be the norm of the faith, but in the Catholic Church the analogia fidei continued to be normative for the interpretation of the Scripture. With the development of historical criticism, the scientific approaches to the Scripture occasionally took distance from the faith. In this context, the magisterial documents of the 19th and 20th centuries mentioned the analogia fidei, emphasizing the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the rule of the Church as the interpreter of the Scripture. The consideration for the analogia fidei, which means “the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of Revelation”(CCC 114), characterizes the Catholic interpretation of the Scripture. In addition, attention should be paid to the aspect that this coherence is based on the unity of the plan of God culminated in Jesus Christ. KCI Citation Count: 1