e prologue of john, a principle and a foundation
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Abstract
The Prologue of the Gospel of John (Jn 1, 1-18) is the biblical text which works as the building axis in the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini. In
fact, each section of the three which constitute the Exhortation carries a verse from the Prologue as an epigraph. Having in mind the famous expression
taken from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Prologue text is “principle and foundation” of this ponti<cal document, that is to say, it is the
key needed to read and capture the richness and message of the Exhortation. The magisterial document follows the ecclesiastical dynamics applied to think
on divine revelation, a genuine re7ection which got its peak in the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum. =e Exhortation taps into this Constitution and the
Constitution gives the Exhortation depth and richness.
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