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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THROUGH GOD’S EYES \nBy Hans Urs von Balthasar \n◊◊◊ \nChristians live with their involvement in the involvement of God for the \nfreedom of the world. They know that each one has been chosen by God and \ncalled by name to assist in his work of liberation. In this work…Christians must\, \nfirst of all\, learn to see fellow human beings and all created things through the \neyes of God. This does not mean that the human being seen in this light\, ceases \nto be a profound mystery. Just the opposite. If it is true that God has made the \nhuman being in his own image and likeness\, then this ought rather to mean that \nsomething of the uniqueness and unfathomableness of God shines in the \nhuman person\, so much more clearly to the beholder when God\, in choosing \nhim and acting in and for him\, sheds upon him God’s own mysterious light. \nTo look through God’s eyes at the human world means enduring both the \nopenness and contradictions of humans..\, bringing everything under the unity \nof God’s plan. Whoever can see more truth than someone else when they look\, is \nin the right. This means first that the human being exists centrally as a person: a \nperson intended by God\, loved by God\, and for whom God dies in order to \nrescue and draw him to God. Hence all that has the status of a thing\, all that is \nnot personal in this world\, has value only in so far as it serves the purposes of the \nperson\, and is harmful when it betrays the person into the hands of the \nimpersonal\, reducing him to slavery and to the status of a thing. This \ndetermines the Christian’s attitude towards technology. Our battle with the \nuniverse will always remain something of a struggle and perhaps even a violent \nwar\, but such a war will be just and permissible only so long as its normative aim \nremains the humanization of the human being. \nAs a fellow human being\, the Christian is of course committed to taking \npart in the total effort of humanity towards the humanizing of the world\, the \nperduring problematic and indeed tragic nature of which we have already \nindicated. The Christian\, however\, has no clear-cut recipes or solutions to offer \nto this problem\, and like others must wrestle with the deciphering of the riddles \nof nature and of history. In this pursuit Christians are at one with their fellows. \nBut from their knowledge of God’s involvement for the world\, they have a wider \nhorizon which embraces the problematic and tragic\, without eliminating it\, and \nfrom which there falls on the world the only light that is truly illuminating and \nhelpful. They must bear witness to this light not just abstractly – by professions \nof faith – but concretely in their professional and human involvement.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-labor-day/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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