Conversion as a Necessary Condition for Following the Lord According to the Gospel of Mark

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Juan Alberto Casas Ramírez

Abstract

The following paper asks about the systematic and biblical development of the concept of conversion in order to do an analysis of the particular theological
treatment in the Gospel of Mark. It is found that conversion in this gospel, though announced, is not explicitly narrated as an action performed during
Jesus’ public teaching, but is prefigured as an eventuality from the meeting with the crucified-resurrected; such meeting, since it produces a whole transformation in the person through grace, constitutes a necessary condition of an authentic following of Christ, which fits in with the lonerganian concept of religious conversion.

Keywords:
Conversion Gospel of Mark Discipleship Metanoia, Epistrepho

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Author Biography

Juan Alberto Casas Ramírez, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Magíster en Teología (2010), Licenciado en Ciencias Religiosas (2007) y Diplomado en Pastoral Educativa Académica (2005) y en Espiritualidad de la docencia universitaria (2010) de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Candidato al Doctorado en Teología por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. CC. 80179509. Profesor e investigador de tiempo completo en el área de Teología Bíblica de la Facultad de Teología de dicha Universidad. Miembro del grupo de investigación Didaskalia, reconocido por Colciencias. El artículo capitaliza varios de los hallazgos parciales del proyecto doctoral de investigación “Ciegos y sordomudos: claves de comprensión del discipulado pos-pascual en el evangelio de Marcos”.