of As in "In brief" 31 January follows now announced with some delay, an argument with an article by Father Karl Wallner OCist., Dean Faculty of Theology at Holy Cross in Vienna, which on 27 January 2007, entitled "In the sky I will come!" Vision2000 at kath.net or published. Although this may not seem up to date, but it's just these days again, since it is essentially the point of life, death and resurrection of attacks. It is this is the first part of a small series that was originally intended as a contribution. Despite the fairly detailed discussion, it is said to be regarded as a very rough piece of work, tear supplement its me, but would in this treatment but probably would be too much deep theology.
to Beginning must be said that basically nothing happened to sound completely wrong, of what P. Wallner OCist. writes, I think it is contradictory but rather one-sided and, since I am not only a bottle of populist critique of capitalism without any real background, but also seems anachronistic. Whether P. Wallner post is worded quite deliberately provocative, I can not judge. It says:
"Who is the enjoyment of the Today in the foreground will, just do not think so at the end. Even Christians are now critically endangered, all too at home in today's world of wealth to set up. "
It is probably true that we Christians are not of this world, but well we're in this world (Jn 17:11 ff). We can not but because we are not of this (secular) world, but our home with our Heavenly Father, have a hostile world, taking the here and now averse position. Of course, life is arranged toward the sky, but this is no future, that Christianity is not, as P. Wallner says, a "Hinordnung of life to the ultimate future, but, heaven is a present. It should be positioned on the task of this present heaven be a Christian in the world to bring this heaven on earth to do. Not the Sichzurüsten for a transcendent future, the constant worry about their own selfish soul, should we. This does not just now, not domesticated set in the world to enjoy this world not to take them, but instead may well be prepared in asceticism for eternity with God. No, quite the contrary, the world as it is to take well, we can look into her "feel at home" also. The question is rather how we address these things in the world. I think both are possible, it is in this world "comfortably set up" and at the same time not lose sight of the heavenly home, for both is much closer than it seems when we do it right, both namely, God and World in unit first the kingdom of God. And the resurrection from death in the kingdom of God into this very day, is now possible and does not require mandatory physical death, which then ultimately we will compile only the crowning of God's eye view. We should already be saints on earth, not only in heaven. The death that Christ had suffered a death is just above all of the old, sinful man. With it, our old man also died, and we buy a new, as a Christian, again, at best, as Christ himself. This path to sanctification, how can we recoup the kingdom of God, even though has always been committed to various saints and described only the end that man perfect "son" will.
Consider again the basic theses. Father Wallner: So who thinks too little of death that is doing too well. But this should be the desire of the Christian, the longing for the glorious future with God, ultimately, to death. "The Christian faith calls us to a focus point to the death. No, wrong. "Corrects P. Wallner. suddenly "An orientation toward to what we expected through death. eternal life", this correction is right, but at the same time he falls back into old patterns. "If there was no" new heaven and a new earth, 'then we must stop cheap set up on the old earth. Christianity is a eschatological religion, and if we lose the last bit out of sight, we no longer deserve to wear the name of Him who said: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, all things shall be given unto you '. (Mk 6:33; Luke 12:31) "In principle, this argument is so, life is meaningless in itself, if there is not the afterlife that is a future for P. Wallner, formulated as elsewhere. Here lies the fundamental flaw that is the kingdom of God is not only the future and if the evangelists say, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, all things shall be added unto you.", It means that it now seeks in this world! From this perspective, can a life that is not addressed in the future, but in the present still adheres not seem pointless, because that is living in the present life always with and in God because "God is a God of the present." ( Eckhart). And all forward-looking expectations, which we describe with terms such as "sky" or "kingdom of God" are ultimately hopes on the present and living God, the "I-am-da." In "heaven" to live is nothing more than to live in God's existence. Which means that we are "only" have to believe in Him as our Father, it "love with all my heart, all your soul and with all your strength." (Deut. 6:5) We all believe far too little!
will again be said then, that if P. Wallner says "Christianity is an eschatological 'religion, Christianity is [...] Hinordnung of life on the last future God will prepare us," he apparently overlooked, this is in the discussion of the eschatological problem "eschatological" can not be a concept of time, but a Exitenzbegriff. The "Last", the eschaton is said, will simply not last the future, but a possible reality now that the "last", so it is most perfect. This living reality to visualize the world, to ourselves, so now this, in fact, God shall order, so that what we describe with the word "reversal" is our job and be understood in this scale has practiced Christianity as a transformation of the world to the eschatological concept of the "new world" to take up. Whether this can succeed is another matter, which are then measured against the standard of hope need to hope in God and his kingdom already part units, in the hope of Jesus, who can show us God, because he finally himself. But it should such a practical eschatology not understand or interpret even politically incorrect, because the "Kingdom of God" is not a political term and bringing about or visualizing this realm is not a political process.
Clarification: There may still unclear about the relationship between present and future, because quite clearly the eschatological perspective of a future, since it's obvious you can look at a present from a state which is not yet, but so be our hope is, and thus it is clearly a future. In truth, we must not speak in the eschatology of "present" and "future", which are apparently irreconcilable in a diastasis, but must, if any, of a diastasis of "middle", that is our current state, the "early" and "end", ie, the eschaton, the last, the "not yet" talk. This argument can, however, cling together again, just now when we speak of "end" and assume that this end is not at all in the true sense of the future, but it is already planned and therefore part of this world. Because of this real, or the end of its premise, ie the final redemption of her we can say that is that it has already come - in Jesus Christ, by His death on the cross. (In this respect, the coming of the kingdom of God but then physical death is necessary.) "The Answer to the question of the kingdom of the Son. In it, after all, the diastase of unschließbare already and not yet closed: In it are life and death, destruction and being held together. The cross is the bond that closes the diastase. "In this last, most radical" gesture son, "nowhere else, is the" kingdom of God ", it enters the world. Christ has given us so "in his resurrection," "longing for the glorious future with God" opens up not only as Father Wallner said, but in himself, through his death on the cross, is the presence of God in our world already begun.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God" So, read at the same time, as already mentioned, that man perfect "son" will, for "seek the kingdom of God" is nothing more than seek God, for he is there, so your father.
To be continued ...
(cited sources: Meister Eckhart: German Sermons and tracts, J. Ratzinger.. Eschatology, P. Wallner OCist. "In the sky I will come" )
to Beginning must be said that basically nothing happened to sound completely wrong, of what P. Wallner OCist. writes, I think it is contradictory but rather one-sided and, since I am not only a bottle of populist critique of capitalism without any real background, but also seems anachronistic. Whether P. Wallner post is worded quite deliberately provocative, I can not judge. It says:
"Who is the enjoyment of the Today in the foreground will, just do not think so at the end. Even Christians are now critically endangered, all too at home in today's world of wealth to set up. "
It is probably true that we Christians are not of this world, but well we're in this world (Jn 17:11 ff). We can not but because we are not of this (secular) world, but our home with our Heavenly Father, have a hostile world, taking the here and now averse position. Of course, life is arranged toward the sky, but this is no future, that Christianity is not, as P. Wallner says, a "Hinordnung of life to the ultimate future, but, heaven is a present. It should be positioned on the task of this present heaven be a Christian in the world to bring this heaven on earth to do. Not the Sichzurüsten for a transcendent future, the constant worry about their own selfish soul, should we. This does not just now, not domesticated set in the world to enjoy this world not to take them, but instead may well be prepared in asceticism for eternity with God. No, quite the contrary, the world as it is to take well, we can look into her "feel at home" also. The question is rather how we address these things in the world. I think both are possible, it is in this world "comfortably set up" and at the same time not lose sight of the heavenly home, for both is much closer than it seems when we do it right, both namely, God and World in unit first the kingdom of God. And the resurrection from death in the kingdom of God into this very day, is now possible and does not require mandatory physical death, which then ultimately we will compile only the crowning of God's eye view. We should already be saints on earth, not only in heaven. The death that Christ had suffered a death is just above all of the old, sinful man. With it, our old man also died, and we buy a new, as a Christian, again, at best, as Christ himself. This path to sanctification, how can we recoup the kingdom of God, even though has always been committed to various saints and described only the end that man perfect "son" will.
Consider again the basic theses. Father Wallner: So who thinks too little of death that is doing too well. But this should be the desire of the Christian, the longing for the glorious future with God, ultimately, to death. "The Christian faith calls us to a focus point to the death. No, wrong. "Corrects P. Wallner. suddenly "An orientation toward to what we expected through death. eternal life", this correction is right, but at the same time he falls back into old patterns. "If there was no" new heaven and a new earth, 'then we must stop cheap set up on the old earth. Christianity is a eschatological religion, and if we lose the last bit out of sight, we no longer deserve to wear the name of Him who said: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, all things shall be given unto you '. (Mk 6:33; Luke 12:31) "In principle, this argument is so, life is meaningless in itself, if there is not the afterlife that is a future for P. Wallner, formulated as elsewhere. Here lies the fundamental flaw that is the kingdom of God is not only the future and if the evangelists say, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, all things shall be added unto you.", It means that it now seeks in this world! From this perspective, can a life that is not addressed in the future, but in the present still adheres not seem pointless, because that is living in the present life always with and in God because "God is a God of the present." ( Eckhart). And all forward-looking expectations, which we describe with terms such as "sky" or "kingdom of God" are ultimately hopes on the present and living God, the "I-am-da." In "heaven" to live is nothing more than to live in God's existence. Which means that we are "only" have to believe in Him as our Father, it "love with all my heart, all your soul and with all your strength." (Deut. 6:5) We all believe far too little!
will again be said then, that if P. Wallner says "Christianity is an eschatological 'religion, Christianity is [...] Hinordnung of life on the last future God will prepare us," he apparently overlooked, this is in the discussion of the eschatological problem "eschatological" can not be a concept of time, but a Exitenzbegriff. The "Last", the eschaton is said, will simply not last the future, but a possible reality now that the "last", so it is most perfect. This living reality to visualize the world, to ourselves, so now this, in fact, God shall order, so that what we describe with the word "reversal" is our job and be understood in this scale has practiced Christianity as a transformation of the world to the eschatological concept of the "new world" to take up. Whether this can succeed is another matter, which are then measured against the standard of hope need to hope in God and his kingdom already part units, in the hope of Jesus, who can show us God, because he finally himself. But it should such a practical eschatology not understand or interpret even politically incorrect, because the "Kingdom of God" is not a political term and bringing about or visualizing this realm is not a political process.
Clarification: There may still unclear about the relationship between present and future, because quite clearly the eschatological perspective of a future, since it's obvious you can look at a present from a state which is not yet, but so be our hope is, and thus it is clearly a future. In truth, we must not speak in the eschatology of "present" and "future", which are apparently irreconcilable in a diastasis, but must, if any, of a diastasis of "middle", that is our current state, the "early" and "end", ie, the eschaton, the last, the "not yet" talk. This argument can, however, cling together again, just now when we speak of "end" and assume that this end is not at all in the true sense of the future, but it is already planned and therefore part of this world. Because of this real, or the end of its premise, ie the final redemption of her we can say that is that it has already come - in Jesus Christ, by His death on the cross. (In this respect, the coming of the kingdom of God but then physical death is necessary.) "The Answer to the question of the kingdom of the Son. In it, after all, the diastase of unschließbare already and not yet closed: In it are life and death, destruction and being held together. The cross is the bond that closes the diastase. "In this last, most radical" gesture son, "nowhere else, is the" kingdom of God ", it enters the world. Christ has given us so "in his resurrection," "longing for the glorious future with God" opens up not only as Father Wallner said, but in himself, through his death on the cross, is the presence of God in our world already begun.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God" So, read at the same time, as already mentioned, that man perfect "son" will, for "seek the kingdom of God" is nothing more than seek God, for he is there, so your father.
To be continued ...
(cited sources: Meister Eckhart: German Sermons and tracts, J. Ratzinger.. Eschatology, P. Wallner OCist. "In the sky I will come" )
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