Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Leiden und Gerechtigkeit Gottes; Auferstehung

Kurzinhalt: In the death and resurrection of Christ we have the tremendous symbol of Christianity that interprets for us the meaning of life

Textausschnitt: In the death and resurrection of Christ we have the tremendous symbol of Christianity that interprets for us the meaning of life. The Christian knows that if the master has suffered, there is nothing incongruous in his own suffering; and he knows that as the master rose again, so the Father is able to transform, to make all things work unto the good. That understanding of the meaning of human life that is mediated to us through the death and resurrection of Christ, as through a symbol, an image, is something on which our intellectual and moral and spiritual lives can develop, and in their development see more and more of its profundity. And that is God's expression of himself to us.
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As you see, the question of suffering, like all concrete existential questions, heads on to the religious, to the supernatural. Just as there is a self-appropriation that involves a development in us and implies a development in us - to be men - so the situation that is the human condition leads us on further to what we name the supernatural life, to a life in which God loves us in the full sense of love. Love involves a quasi identification. ... It presupposes an advance made by God as a lover, in the full sense of loving, and it means our response, and it means our response in which we love one another because we love God - and if we don't love one another we don't know God, in the words of St John's epistle