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« I didn't forget!!! Acts 8:26-40 | Main | Brief Reflections on the Criminalization of Marijuana » October 26, 2005
Reading
Life per usual has been very full. I'm working with classes and trying to prepare for the Society of Biblical Literature meetings, where I'm on a panel to discuss two new commentaries on Chronicles. In the meantime, I've been reading some of Karl Barth and James K. A. Smith, both that I hope to share along the way. I hope also to share some posts from other sites that I've found very interesting and helpful. Yet David Jones, my friend at ressourcement.blogspot.com, graciously sent me some books from the founder of Communion and Liberation, an Italian priest named Luigi Giussani. He wrote a trilogy, and I've been reading the second book, "At the Origin of the Christian Claim". It's very excellent. I've been speaking of it to colleagues for use at our university at several levels. I hope also some of us in the parish might get together and read it as well. Anyways, here is a very good quote from the book. Enjoy! "Jesus Christ did not come into the world as a substitute for human effort, human freedom, or to eliminate human trial -- the existential condition of freedom. He came into the world to call man back to the depths of all questions, to his own fundamental structure, and to his own real situation. If certain basic values are not safeguarded, all the problems man is called to resolve in the trial of life do not dissolve, but rather become more complicated. Jesus Christ came to call man back to true religiosity, without which every claim to a solution of those problems is a lie. The problem of the knowledge of the meaning of things (truth), making use of things (work), human awareness (love), human co-existence (society and politics) lack a proper formulation and so, to the extent that religiosity is not at the founation of the serach for their solution, they generate ever greater confusion in the history of the individual and humanity as a whole. . . It is not the task of Jesus to resolve all the various problems, but to harken man back to the position where he can more correctly try to resolve them. This toil is a rightful part of every individual's commitment, whose function in existing lies precisely in that search for solutions. ('Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life' [cf. Matt. 19:29]). Posted by johnwright at October 26, 2005 10:33 AM Comments
Tension! Charity! Thanks for posting this, John. Good to see you blogging today! I need to e-mail you. peace, Eric Posted by: Eric Lee at October 26, 2005 11:33 AM Christ is in our midst! Your own life and personal experiences confirm the truth of which Don Gius speaks. Posted by: David at October 26, 2005 3:09 PM Post a comment
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