True, this offer no longer seems to arouse much interest in a certain number of people, adepts of a Christianity which claims to want to be not "moderately" but fully "modern", perfectly adapted to a world hostile to all mystical excesses, whether moral or metaphysical...."Would a man with good sense today still want to become God?" What a surprising lack of ambition in this "modern" Christianity!...Let us conclude that "a Christianity which offers man something less than making him God is too modest..." [Quoting Joseph Ratzinger].—Henri de Lubac, A Brief Catechesis on Nature & Grace (1980)
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Making us God
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Post No. 200!
ReplyDeleteAlas, some of us are too busy trying first to become men.
Onward to 400!
ReplyDeleteThe paradox of Christian anthropology is that we are not truly human until we are truly divine. "Merely" human is always less than truly human.