volume 6, issue 2, 2014, pages 158-185

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsGOVI4906
Published online: 2014-12-01
Published in print: 2014-12-30

Abstract: The interpretation of the anthropological dimension of the Word of God on the basis of literary transformation of the biblical text and of the intepretative approaches according to fast developing human sciences finds present response in the current evangelization. Selected, on the world of narration concentrated steps of narrative literary method have been applied to the text pericopes about The Penitent Woman (Luke 7:36-50) in the first part of the article. The basic psychological processes of cognitivity, emocionality and conativity of the protagonists of the interpreted pericope have been studied in the next part. The application of the narrative analysis and of the psychological approach on the chosen text document their partial complementarity, especially in the area of the dynamics of the story. It confirms the important function of cognitive and emotive verbs in the story line, further the function of emotive verbs in time of narration and of cognitive verbs by the angle of vision of the narration. The interpretation of the biblical text from the narrative point of view supported its psychological interpretation that retrospectively more clearly showed the values for those the evangelist wanted to convince the reader. At the same time the dynamic processes of the characters, studied with both methods, showed the fact that the precondition for conversion is the cognitive and emotive openness and that a person Studia Biblica Slovaca Lebo veľmi miluje 185 gets by means of conversion a more authentic psychological integrity whose demonstration is the ability to love.