to encourage theology
I intend to publish here, ten times a year, a text theological or spiritual, of the minutes of critical readings. I am a Protestant culture, but my question is about how Christianity can s'anticiper today. Such, perspective can not accommodate a purely religious or dogmatic attitude.
I draw inspiration from the biblical source unsurpassable and I lean against the Christian tradition of which I am involved. At the same time, I saw blood in the incompleteness of the current reality and truth (which is different from doubt), with other religions and cultures, modernity and postmodernity.
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CLOSE THE DOOR
Luke 13, 22-30
"Strive to enter through the narrow door, because many
, I tell you, will seek to enter
and can not do. "
v. 24
Apart from the last verse ("And thus there are last which shall be first and first will be last," Mark 10.31), this passage brings together words that are common 'Matthew and Luke, who therefore come from the Source Q (or Logia). Luke brought together words that Matthew records separately in other contexts in Chapters 7 (which is still part of the Sermon on the Mount) and 8. Luke stresses the threat of foreclosure and did not mention the track and door "leads to life" (Mt 7, 14).
Grouping Luke could have the title: "From one surprise: a) What! We were familiar and you do not recognize us anymore! B) What! We are the chosen people and here we are mixed with people of all backgrounds! C) What! We were the first st us here the last while few people are in first place!
In History Christianity, the "narrow gate" has been understood in a negative sense, as a way of refusal of pleasure, of asceticism (out of this world), deprivation and even exaltation of suffering, such as compliance with Letter of religious obligations ¬ gious and social achievements of the ritual, submission to the prohibitions. Andre Gide wrote under this title (The Strait Gate), in 1909, a novel in which he describes how Puritanism gradually cancels all the gifts of a beautiful young wife (Alissa) with a great future. The narrow gate which opens on Life (according to Matthew) begins by destroying life.
Is it possible to get out of this rut? It is beneficial to talk of narrow passage where we are in a race that we have not sought. Able to say then: "I pass through the narrow gate that leads to life" is a powerful re ¬ forming.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in a letter from prison Flossenbürg dated April 30, 1944 (it will be executed by the Nazis, April 8, 1945) wrote this: "The discussions on human limitations I have become suspicious (death itself, that men no longer fear and much sin they no longer understand they are still real limits?), it always seems that we timidly spare room for God, I speak of God, not limits, but at the center, not in weakness, but in the power, not about death and sin, but in life and in the goodness of man "(Resistance and Submission, translation Labor et Fides, p. 123). Such a text allows us to measure the spiritual and theological turn is Bonhoeffer.
door wide, we understand what it is: the facility, training (as do others), life goes on in agitation. Current events, near and recent history provide us with a number of examples of lives ruined for having followed the prophets of modern life in freedom, or simply believed that "Everybody is good, everyone is nice. " Small lies, small cowardice, ingratitude ¬ small studies, the wide gate and broad is the way exaltation ¬ aunts, but risky. It must be armed to the physical, morale, mental and spiritual world where they face the con ¬ duce otherwise unscathed, at least with no regrets and no remorse.
I propose to understand the "narrow gate" the sense of an ordinary door of our homes where no one goes normally, one by one, in turn, unlike major por ¬ tails where the flow of the crowd pours. The narrow gate is one that requires an individual decision for Jesus, a personal commitment to the Gospel, a life for life. Less than door renunciation of commitment (which turns its back on our complacency and our comforts).
Bonhoeffer wrote that modern man does not understand sin, he does not understand either the hello it coincides with a rescue. When I look back ¬ spectively in my life, what remains for me the best is neither honors nor the success (relatively), but the memory of the occasions when it was given to me to be able to help or rescue people. It may be that the message of salvation.
Jacques Gruber
Other texts available via email : Evidence; elections or plebiscites; Where do we stand with the truth? ; Protestants, the souk, Jews and Christians, the divergence of monotheism (first and second parts) The Don and attention; Holy Spirit, who are you, what are you doing? ; Send Church (s) What is believed Jesus entering Jerusalem; Messages for highlights of the year; Am I creating ¬ nist? ; Confession of Faith, Evangelism, Forgiveness, The Shipyard, Grace; Easter A vision for the world; Resources; The roadmap of Jesus, Open Letter to my Catholic friends, the Merciful; Led by the Spirit, The Contemporary distant For entry; The trickery of Calvin, Rome and Canterbury; Woes; Woes (continued) Easter 2010; Remember and learn, Buddha or Jesus, Buddhism ;
the same author: Hear the Word. The inner witness of the Holy Spirit , Paris, Edi ¬ tions du Cerf, 2005,
"You will be my witnesses." For a time of confusion and change , Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2009.
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