Befreiung zur Liebe: die Bedeutung des christlichen Glaubens für die menschliche Praxis nach Peter Knauer
According to John 3:21, for Peter Knauer SJ all good actions »have been carried out in God«. For they are implicitly carried by a basic trust that ultimately lives from communion with God. This communion with God – so the liberating message of Jesus – is our true reality. It disempowers our fear for...
| Subtitles: | Peter Knauer SJ$dTheologie und Ethik im Dienst an der christlichen Botschaft / hrsg. von Georg Gasser und Robert Deinhammer SJ |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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2020
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2020, Volume: 142, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-78 |
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| Summary: | According to John 3:21, for Peter Knauer SJ all good actions »have been carried out in God«. For they are implicitly carried by a basic trust that ultimately lives from communion with God. This communion with God – so the liberating message of Jesus – is our true reality. It disempowers our fear for ourselves, which is otherwise the root of all inhuman behaviour. Only the Trinity doctrine explains how such trust can be explicitly justified. The significance of faith for social practice does not therefore consist in reckoning with an intervention of God or a special presence of God in helping activities. Nor does it consist in additional ethical standards or additional motivation. Rather, it consists solely in the fact that faith opens our hearts to see ourselves and the whole world secure in God and therefore to deal lovingly with everything. The never-ending question about a genuinely Christian profile of church social services can be answered on the basis of Knauer’s fundamental theology in such a way that it does not devalue non-Christians. The Christian message asks to be heard, because it disempowers fear, strengthens trust and thus is able to activate forces for responsible action. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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