Citing the First Letter of John as the source for the work's title, Benedict lays out his simple vision of Christian faith. " 'We have come to believe in God's love': in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction."
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
promising
I noticed this part of an article from time.com:
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sadly, other points of the article written make it clear that the pope's statements are not so solid as the one i posted.
What didn't you like about it? or at least find wishy washy?
Interesting. I did not get the same feeling. I think it may be the fault of the reporting, rather than the encyclical. I rather think it would be going against the whole point of the "God is Love" theme to use this document to lambast those who already feel unloved by the Church. I thought it was very good.
yeah, I just re-read the article and it did seem very good, that was the reason I put it up in the first place, but I thought that that core paragraph was especially brilliant with truth as it said that lives are transformed by 'someone' or an 'event'. I wonder who? Who but God?
As to my 'sadly..' it was directly from the following paragraph which says 'self-discovery' and that rings negative bells in my head, though I guess it really isn't all that bad. (c: I mean... self-discovery is fun, but I tend not to associate it the way Ratzinger does. I think the order he explains to the discovery of God by first self-giving, then self-discovery and then 'indeed the discovery of God'. Bothers me a little. Obviously this could be debated, but most people I know who have discovered God have had a different path than what Pope R. said. It goes more like; "self-living, self-failure of some sort, God's provision (love), discovery of God and self-identity in relation to God (and His love)."
Call it semantics or whatever.
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