Abstrakt: | Christology is the key to understand God’s justice.
Jesus – the Son who is one in substance with His Father
– shows what God’s justice is and how different it is
from men’s rules. God overcomes the logic of repayment,
a suitable reward or deserved punishment, not through ignoring
or excluding them, but through omnipotent love
that makes Him assume the burden of responsibility and
pay the price of Salvation. Incarnation of the Son of God,
which leads Him inevitably to death and sacrifi ce of His
life, redeeming the sense and intentions of all the previous
sacrifi ces, becomes an expression of God’s justice. It
returns a man to God as His possession and restores the
image and the likeness of God in us. Paradoxically, justice
that does not reveal itself through power and authority,
but through love and sacrifi ce, turns out to be omnipotent,
since it is redemptive. As such, through its excess, it
establishes the kingdom of God and becomes a criterion
of Christian ethos. |