The rationalistic opposition between freedom and morality (2/2) - 25 words to speak an ethical language
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25 words for an ethical language
reading St. John Paul II's writings.
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- Irenaeus and gnosticism
- Tertullian and soul's responsibility
- Novatian and the moral life
- Celsus, Origen and humans in the cosmos
- St.Ambrose, St.Augustine and manicheanism
- St.Augustine and pelagianism
- St. John Chrysostom and the Law
- ... about Grace
- Freedom and morality
- Prospects without God?
- We are His creatures
- Truth is not opposed to reason
The rationalistic opposition between freedom and morality (2/2)
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An ante-litteram opposition to rationalism is poetically enunciated by St. John of the Cross in the VII Romance, in which the purpose of creation is presented as the gift of a bride that the Father proposes to the Son.
Humanity is called to serve as the bride and the Christ Bride accepts the gift and takes responsibility for helping and adorning her with grace, before presenting her to the Father.
Such providential and merciful divine will of responsibility for man, can be read as the intention to act, guard, preserve and save a good to maintain ownership.
In this sense, we are creatures, the vineyard, that the Lord did not intend to abandon, indeed claims it, acting in the world and in history for the salvation of His creatures.