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WAYS AROUND THE 'FAITH' IN GOD'S ECLIPSE

Gonzalo Gamio Gehri

Santa Week is always an interesting time. A time of meditation. A time for reading and dialogue, if we consider that the national television films always exhibits the same period, and the Sermon on the traditional three hours - I usually hear every year - does not offer any new or insightful perspective on dialectical theology or even (perhaps pre-conciliar monologue with a little bit political and electoral much of the spirituality of Mel Gibson and no or Pagola Metz). All things considered the matter, this situation of "winter theological" - to use an expression of a very dear ecclesiological Franciscan - allows us to turn inwards, return to one's Gospel and other readings. The recent departure of our friend and teacher has given Vincent Santuca this holiday has a different key, which converge the sadness and hope.

Religion is an extraordinary form of discourse and practice that seeks to give life meaning and fulfillment. Expresses a kind of longing for transcendence that can not detract nothing more. That longing drinks from a variety of sources, the notable Christian thinker and mystic Simone Weil argued that he was built up spiritually with the Gospel reading, but also by reading the Greek classics (an idea that I share completely.) This desire is his test of authenticity in the confrontation with practice. In particular embodiment Christianity is or is not at all . It is an expression of faith and justice, and in its midst, one calls the other. Jesus of Nazareth preached a kingdom of love and forgiveness - which was noted in our midst - and accepted death on a cross in the name of the message. Who then hoisted the banner of a monolithic orthodoxy condemned him for heresy.

The significant Jewish philosopher Martin Buber has said that our age is marked by an "eclipse of God ', an experience of no significance for the presence of different images of self that obscure the possibility of a genuine encounter with divine. Recall that Buber believes that the relationship with God has the shape of the I-thou communication, early and concrete in the interpersonal encounter, the relationship between human beings of flesh and bone. Impossible not to think about the meal when you read this venerable teacher Vienna. The reasons for the eclipse, in contrast, comes from the imposition of the I-it (or I- this ), the relationship with an object or a (mere) concept. The objectification of human beings - for example, savage capitalism or the political totalitarianism of different stamp - or treatment of God or truth or representations as mere bodies, involve forms of spiritual eclipse.

Interestingly, because the eclipse is schematically identified with the "secularism" or religious skepticism, and denounce the theocon . There is a doctrinal problem can be resolved in terms of orthodoxy versus heterodoxy, eradicating heresy. Attitude is a fundamental issue, which involves "beliefs" strictly within the meaning of dispositions to act. In fact Buber notes that one of the most lethal and painful of the eclipse of God are the ways "religious" fundamentalism and fanaticism, which seeks God's face be covered with the mask of the will to power, when leadership becomes not an expression of service, but a sign of power and control over the conduct of others, when a human doctrine becomes identical to the Truth. This form of idolatry and hypocrisy replaces the love of dominion over the will the other, betrays the deep spirit of religion. Caring for the poor, the widow and the alien is replaced by the control over the consciences and bodies. This stance is at odds with the attitude of a God who is incarnate, born in a manger and died on the cross for love.

are issues to think calmly. In the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, truth can not be started without the horizon of interpersonal relationships, caring for the dignity and freedom of those who can and should tell you . When this happens, definitely something wrong.