La cartografía bíblica y el relato normativo de la misión paulina
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Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
info
ISSN: 0425-340X, 2792-260X
Datum der Publikation: 2023
Ausgabe: 58
Faszikel: 2
Seiten: 249-269
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Estudio agustiniano: Revista del Estudio Teológico Agustiniano de Valladolid
Zusammenfassung
Biblical cartography has elabo-rated a master narrative of Paul’s mis-sionary activity. This master narrative, which clearly distinguishes between three different journeys, is the one presupposed in Bibles and Biblical atlases. Nevertheless, Paul’s letters and the Book of Acts do not support such a clear distinction. The present study contends that the dis-tinction between three missionary jour-neys is a modern construct and that this way of representing Paul’s missionary ac-tivity has a significant impact on how we understand it. By representing Paul’s mis-sionary activity as an orderly sequence of three travels, the maps not only minimise the novelty of his independent mission but also lessen Paul’s confrontation with the Jerusalem church. In this representa-tion, he is no longer the marginal leader of a minority movement within the nascent church, but ‘the’ missionary.