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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE UNITY OF SPIRIT AND MATTER \nBy Karl Rahner5 \n◊◊◊ \nThe history of the angels and the history of the world are at least \ninterlaced in many respects. The common goal of both is the eternal kingdom \nof God… In the Christian teaching the angels\, whether they are to be thought of \nas good or bad\, certainly exercise functions in this world… The angels can be \nunderstood quite correctly\, even according to scripture\, as cosmic powers of the \norder of nature and of its history. Christian theology has always seen the object \nof the personal decision of personal spiritual powers\, called angels\, to live in \nChrist and in his salvific function for the history of humankind and hence of the \nmaterial world. \nIf one looks at these data\, it will be quite legitimate to be of the opinion \nthat\, first of all\, the doctrine of the angels understood as ‘pure spirits’\, no matter \nhow materially correct\, unjustifiably lends too much support to a platonic and \nnon-Christian removal of the created spirit from this world. Furthermore\, it \nwill have to be said that the angels\, in spite of their differences from human \nbeings\, can be conceived in such a way that\, in their own way and of their own \nmost proper and original nature\, they are powers of the one and hence also \nmaterial world to whose material nature they are genuinely and essentially \nrelated. It may rightly be said\, at any rate\, that the Christian teaching about the \nangels does not basically bar the way to a decided and consequential conception \nof the unity of spirit and matter in their common history. \nSince ultimately we really know very little that is certain about the angels \nand demons\, we have the perfect right after what has been said to look at the \nunity of spirit and matter as we experience it directly in the history of \nhumankind and also as interpreted in a way compatible with revelation\, and to \nlook at this unity as paradigmatic in principle for the unity of spirit and matter \nin the created sphere as such. The highest grade of all productive becoming is \nthe human spirit and matter tends towards it as towards its final principle of \nnature and form\, for a human being is the goal of all generative becoming. \nMatter and spirit have a unity in their starting point\, in their history and in their \ngoal. Both of them remain eternally valid before God and form for ever\, now \nand in the state of perfection\, the mutually correlative\, non-separable \nconstitutive elements of the one created reality. \n  \n5 Theological Investigations VI\, On Angels. Karl Rahner\, Seabury Press\, 1974\, pp. 159-160.10 \n  \n  \n  \n 
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