Abstrakt: | The biblical history of salvation results in tightening the bond between God and man
more and more closely, though there is a sudden change in the quality between the Old
and New Testaments that makes the bond so far expressed through the Covenant to fulfil
itself in the theandric communion in the Person of Jesus Christ. Christianity arises as
a communion and, as such, it fulfils itself in the Church, through the Holy Spirit: it consists
in making a gift of oneself and relying on the gift. J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows how
Christianity not only enters the structures of reality, but – in fact − constitutes its most
appropriate − since salutary − structure and a hermeneutic key to understand man. What
seems paradoxical, or even nonsensical in Christianity, as a matter of fact, breaks the
absurdity of atheistically ideologised structure of the world and thinking. |