PECCATO ORIGINALE E DOGMA DEL‘LIMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE

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e Weimer: 2.1. Il peccato originale come “coacervo di male provocato dall’uomo”;

2.2. La redenzione come “controazione di Dio” al peccato: Israele e Maria. 3. Valutazioni conclusive.

ABSTRACT – Original sin and the dogma of the immaculate conception. The proposal of

Gerhard Lohfink and Ludwig Weimer. The change in contemporary theology about the

doctrine of original sin, in light of the scientific evolutionist theories, of the anthropological

turn in theology and of the new perspectives in exegesis of Gen 3, induces one to

rethink the doctrine of the immaculate conception of Mary, traditionally presented as immunity

from the original sin. Many authors of the postconciliar age have rather marked

the positive mean of the marian dogma, understanding it as the affirmation of the total

holiness of Mary, without insisting on exceptional nature of her privilege. In particular,

Gerhard Lohfink and Ludwig Weimer, in their Mary not without Israel, offer a new idea of

the immaculate conception: it consists in the realization in the person of Mary of the slow

walk of humanity and of Israel (in particular of the “small remnant”), that, in spite of the

“world sin” and the infidelity to God’s design, stays freely faithful to the grace of God.

KEYWORDS – Mary, Mariology, Original sin, Immaculate Conception, Israel.