unbelief and faith in luke 1:5-25 Why does luke’s account begin with unbelief ?

AUTEUR :  Jean-Noël Aletti, S.J.

RESUME 
To begin a story always involves something arbitrary. Some authors prefer to comply with the order of events; others start from the most recent facts which they explain through what preceded. This allows them to draw insights from the events of the past. Luke’s account, following the models of his time, opens with birth narratives, right from the beginning !It is however strange that a story whose purpose is to proclaim the good news begins with a non-faith episode. One wonders why the narrator does not pass over in silence the non-faith of Zechariah. Did he want to create a contrast with the faith of Mary in the next episode? Was it to show that God’s will and power can overcome all human resistance? A convincing response requires that the episode be read with the tools of narrative analysis. The episodes of Luke 1–2 have already been subjected to many studies, but their narrative features were not satisfactorily recognized, as it will be shown later.