Fear and Ecstatic Reaction to the Miracle Stories in the Synoptic Gospels
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira
Original title: Maravilhamento e êxtase religioso como reação aos milagres nos Evangelhos Sinóticos
Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism
Keywords: Ecstatic, Jesus, Miracles, Synoptic Gospels..
The Synoptic Miracle Stories have been interpreted with suspicion by modern exegetes. If compared to Jesus’ preaching and to the death and resurrection account they never received a true religious appreciation. In fact, the insertion of the Miracle Stories in the Synoptic Gospels has been considered as a kind of concession by the evangelists: they narrate them, but they show also that the popular reaction to the miracles, even if positive, is dominated by misunderstanding.
Saint Vincent Ferrer in Valencian popular imaginary: a ethnopoetics approach to narrative cycle of Vincentians miracles
Joan BORJA I SANZ
Original title: Sant Vicent Ferrer en l’imaginari popular valencià: una aproximació etnopoètica al cicle narratiu dels miracles vicentins
Published in Nicholas of Cusa in Dialogue
Keywords: Ethnohistory, Ethnopoetics, Land of Valencia, Miracles, Vincent Ferrer.
This paper focusses on the productive narrative cycle by St. Vincent Ferrer in Valencian cultural context, from a repertoire of over forty stories. The analysis allows to state and explain a curious phenomenon. That is: regardless of the real and historical biography, legends about St. Vincent Ferrer respond to idiosyncratic grammar of fantasy, and they are like a mirror which is projected and reflected the ethnohistorical personality of the Valencian people.
