Improvident Providence
'Cum Deo or being with God'. The idea is to show that we need to get away from the contrast between providence as power and improvidence as weakness or retreat. Neither omnipotence nor tsimstum are appropriate to the Christian definition of God, and still less the so frequently invoked ide...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
2023
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2023, Issue: 3, Pages: 22-31 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ Providence
/ Powerlessness
/ Responsibility
/ Human being
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Divine Providence
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| Summary: | 'Cum Deo or being with God'. The idea is to show that we need to get away from the contrast between providence as power and improvidence as weakness or retreat. Neither omnipotence nor tsimstum are appropriate to the Christian definition of God, and still less the so frequently invoked idea of vulnerability. Only a minimalist version of providence will produce a maximalist God. Where another person only stands 'beside' my trauma in original solitude, God alone meets me to 'be there with me' - Emmanuel. Far from denying the core of solitude, he dwells there since he is 'closer to myself than my own self', in Augustine's phrase. The force of providence is not to get me out of the state I am in, in a false conception of forgetting and deleting the past, but not to leave me alone there. Such is the metamorphosis God produces in me: the other I that receives their new name - the new identity of a person totally transformed. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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