Pave Benedekts forord til boka om Jesus som skal utgis i v\u00e5r er n\u00e5 offentliggjort. Det har overskrifta «Min forst\u00e5else av Jeus person i Det nye testementet», er en noks\u00e5 tydelig kritikk av milj\u00f8er innenfor moderne bibelvitenskp, og det begynner slik:<\/p>\n
Jeg har skrevet denne boka om Jesus etter en lang indre reise. I min ungdom – i 30- og 40-\u00e5ra – ble det utgitt mange fascinerende b\u00f8ker om Jesus. Jeg husker n\u00e5 navna p\u00e5 bare noen av forfatterne: Karl Adam, Romano Guardini, Franz Michel Willam, Giovanni Papini, Jean-Daniel Rops. I alle disse b\u00f8kene er Jesus omtalt slik han beskrives i evangeliene: Hvordan han levde p\u00e5 jorda, og hvordan han – selv om han var sant menneske – brakte Gud til menneskene, siden han var ett med Gud og Guds s\u00f8nn. Slik ble Gud synlig, gjennom mennesket Jesus, og fra Gud kunne man se bildet av det rettferdige mennesket.<\/p>\n
Beginning in the 1950\u2019s, the situation changed. The rift between the \u201chistorical Jesus\u201d and the \u201cChrist of faith\u201d became wider and wider; the one pulled away from the other before one\u2019s very eyes. But what meaning can there be in faith in Jesus Christ, in Jesus the Son the of living God, if the man Jesus is so different from how the evangelists present Him, and from how the Church proclaims Him on the basis of the Gospels? For my presentation of Jesus, this means above all that I trust the Gospels. Naturally, I take for granted what the Council and modern exegesis say about the literary genres, about the intention of various expressions, about the communitarian context of the Gospels and the fact that they speak within this living context. While accepting all this as much as possible, I wanted to make an effort to present the Jesus of the Gospels as the real Jesus, as the \u201chistorical Jesus\u201d in the real sense of the expression.<\/p>\n I am convinced \u2013 and I hope that I can also make the reader aware of this \u2013 that this figure is much more logical, and from the historical point of view also more understandable, than the reconstructions we have had to confront in recent decades.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n
\n….. ….. ….. I felt the need to provide the readers with these indications of method because these determine the route of my interpretation of the figure of Jesus in the New Testament.<\/p>\n