Abstrakt: | Having been distorted since modern times,
the notions of truth and freedom have been radically
juxtaposed in post-modern world views,
consequently resulting in losing the very values:
the truth is questioned, while freedom is determined
and limited by worldly purposes. Joseph
Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows that the terms are,
de facto, theologically important (Theological
Hermeneutics), i.e. they may be fully and properly
understood from the heart of Christian faith.
God is the right guarantor of the truth (involving
the existence of the objective and judicious reality)
and the Embodiment of God’s Son, Logos, is the
ultimate argument for its attainability and cognizability.
When Jesus confessed: ‘I am the truth’
(John, 14.6), He convinces that the truth is universal
and belongs to God. Thereby, it remains universally
binding – it is the appropriate basis of ethos.
The truth constitutes the key to interpret reality
and a superior (independent) criterion for its arrangement
(also in the social and political sense).
Thus, the task of Christianity and theology is to
restore the proper, Christological understanding
of truth and freedom for the world, as well as their
inseparable, redemptive relationship: ‘the truth
will set you free’ (John, 8.32). |