L’apostolo Paolo: un buon “compagno di viaggio” per Martini

In this article, I would like to present how Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini considered the Apostle Paul a good ‘travel companion’, to come closer to Christ and to live with Him, in facing trials and on the way to the magis. The experience of weakness leads Paul to a greater trust in the presence of the Lord who works with the power of grace in his life and consoles him in tribulations and suffering. By walking the path of weakness, Paul grows in the awareness of his participation in Christ’s death and resurrection. The difficulties that Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini experiences in his life lead him to greater trust in God to the point of abandoning himself in the hands of the Lord, as he is increasingly aware that power comes from the hands of God.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/BLDW8487

Dialog 54-3 Imbrisca

Falasca Stefania

Il programma di pontificato e il magistero di Giovanni Paolo I alla luce delle carte d’archivio: i sei «vogliamo» e la via ecumenica

Bîrnat Cristian

• Justification in the Old Testament
• Justification in the New Testament writings

Justification in the New Testament writings

Recognizing our sinful nature, the New Testament presents justification as a divine act of grace. Through faith in Christ, we are freed from the bondage of sin and receive a new life, a gift that we can never earn or deserve. This article is structured in three parts, as it emerges from the New Testament writings: in the first part, we will dwell first on the Gospels. Then we will present at length the Apostle Paul’s conception of justification. And finally, we will place alongside the doctrine of Saint Paul and the one emphasized in the Letter of St. James the Apostle.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/HKXM3800

Dialog 54-1 Bîrnat)

Dialog Teologic XXVII/54 (2024)

Dialog Teologic XXVII/54 (2024)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/NYEQ3911

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Cristian BÎRNAT
Justification in the New Testament writings
Recognizing our sinful nature, the New Testament presents justification as a divine act of grace. Through faith in Christ, we are freed from the bondage of sin and receive a new life, a gift that we can never earn or deserve. This article is structured in three parts, as it emerges from the New Testament writings: in the first part, we will dwell first on the Gospels. Then we will present at length the Apostle Paul’s conception of justification. And finally, we will place alongside the doctrine of Saint Paul and the one emphasized in the Letter of St. James the Apostle.

Gabriel-Iulian ROBU
L’idolo, l’icona e la donazione nella visione di Jean-Luc Marion
The approach with which Marion approaches Thomas’s Aquinas theology at the beginning of his phenomenological journey bears the imprint of Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology, but also of his personal hostility to the conceptual idolatry and atheism manifested in Nietzsche’s philosophy. What Marion contrasts with the conceptual idol is the icon and iconic thought. If the idol comes from looking at it, the icon looks at us, calls forth the vision, letting the visible become saturated with the Invisible. According to Marion, conceptual idolatry still seems a dangerous temptation in our times. Metaphysical categories, concepts can function as idols if they are generated by thought as objects appropriate to ‘God’ on the basis of its divine founding function.

Ionut Eremia IMBRISCA
L’apostolo Paolo: un buon “compagno di viaggio” per Martini
In this article, I would like to present how Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini considered the Apostle Paul a good ‘travel companion’, to come closer to Christ and to live with Him, in facing trials and on the way to the magis. The experience of weakness leads Paul to a greater trust in the presence of the Lord who works with the power of grace in his life and consoles him in tribulations and suffering. By walking the path of weakness, Paul grows in the awareness of his participation in Christ’s death and resurrection. The difficulties that Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini experiences in his life lead him to greater trust in God to the point of abandoning himself in the hands of the Lord, as he is increasingly aware that power comes from the hands of God.

L’idolo, l’icona e la donazione nella visione di Jean-Luc Marion

The approach with which Marion approaches Thomas’s Aquinas theology at the beginning of his phenomenological journey bears the imprint of Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology, but also of his personal hostility to the conceptual idolatry and atheism manifested in Nietzsche’s philosophy. What Marion contrasts with the conceptual idol is the icon and iconic thought. If the idol comes from looking at it, the icon looks at us, calls forth the vision, letting the visible become saturated with the Invisible. According to Marion, conceptual idolatry still seems a dangerous temptation in our times. Metaphysical categories, concepts can function as idols if they are generated by thought as objects appropriate to ‘God’ on the basis of its divine founding function.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/BBVI2481

Dialog 54-2 Robu

Le tappe della critica dell’onto-teo-logia. gli inizi, Jean-Luc Marion e la Radical Orthodoxy

Jean-Luc Marion develops Heidegger’s ideas and his critical approach to onto-theology, including the thought of Thomas Aquinas. At the beginning of this article, we present this topic, which does not seem to lack relevance. Since the critics of ontology refer to Heidegger as a follower or protester, and on the other hand, since we intend to show that the name Thomas Aquinas gives to God does not reproduce the onto-theological determination of metaphysics, we intend to identify the connection between these two sides of the question, as well as to investigate, to some extent, the level of actual knowledge Heidegger had of Aquinas’s thought. In the second part of the article, we do not overlook the merit of the current called Radical Orthodoxy: questioning and renewing the vision of classic themes of theology, such as those of ritual, liturgy, theological language, political theology, the role of Augustine and Thomas, and the theme of authority.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/BBLT7194

Dialog 53-7 Robu

Il programma di pontificato e il magistero di Giovanni Paolo I alla luce delle carte d’archivio: i sei «vogliamo» e la via ecumenica

Can we speak of novelty regarding the magisterium of a pope, more than forty-five years after his death? Yes, if we are talking about John Paul I, a pontiff who adopted a colloquial style in his speeches, who often modified the written text, or even renounced it in order to speak off the cuff. With the help of transcripts of archive television recordings, the magisterium of John Paul I has been reconstructed and published as he delivered it, along with the pontiff’s personal notes, written in a notebook and in the pontificate agenda. The teaching of John Paul I is presented here, therefore, in its authenticity, particularity and integrity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/UOCY5100

Dialog 53-6 Falasca

La debolezza è la mia forza: meditazioni su 2Cor

The correlation between weakness and strength starts from the meditations on the Second Letter to the Corinthians given by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini to a group of Jesuits. Cardinal Martini chose this letter, noting how well the Apostle Paul manages to live through difficult moments in confrontation with the community of Corinth. We analyze how Cardinal Martini explains the fact that the power of God is revealed in weakness (cf. 2Cor 12,1-10). Some considerations and reflections capable to indicate the way towards a solid and secure ministry will conclude our analysis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/DVTJ5336

Dialog 53-8 Imbrisca

Justification in the Old Testament

The term „justification” is a fundamental concept in Pauline theol­ogy, which took the term righteousness from the Old Testament. By righteous­ness and justification, the Old Testament means the divine evaluation of human conduct; as such, these concepts are concerned not so much with an ideal of human perfection as with the realization of personal choices in accordance with God’s plan and will. Righteousness is only that which JHWH has found to be so. Man becomes righteous only when he fulfills God’s will. This article is structured in three parts: in the first part, justification is briefly analysed from a dogmatic-theological point of view. The second section focuses on the Old Testament term justice, the background from which the Apostle Paul—and later the whole of Catholic theology—drew inspiration to define the concept of justification. Finally, in a third section, the key concepts in the Old Testament for the doctrine of justification are presented.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/THDL8937

Dialog 53-5 Bîrnat