God, Love and Freedom in Christianity
As I understand Joseph Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI), by "God" he means...
In this sense nature shows us images created by the God of the philosophers. Ratzinger calls them
By "love", Joseph Ratzinger means the power that makes it possible for us to sense the immeasurable freedom in nature and in people. This presentiment is
and as soon as we have found words for such a presentiment, our connection to the space of freedom is already broken again.
Ratzinger says: This love gives us immortality because it gives us an inkling of God. Against this, all our stirrings in biological life fade away, e.g. our fears, sufferings, even our death.
In this sense the whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg loved and was without fear of death.
According to Ratzinger
Since the Christian option for the Logos means option for a person-like, creative sense, then it is therein at the same time option for the primacy of the particular over the general.
The supreme construction point of the world is a freedom which carries, wants, knows and loves the whole world as freedom. This means that with the freedom the unpredictability, which is inherent in it, essentially belongs to the world. |
Version: 17.7.2023
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