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Incarnation

Echoing the words of St. John in the prologue of his Gospel (the Word became flesh ": John, 1, 14), the Incarnation Catholic Church calls the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature accomplish our salvation in it. In Catholicism

In Theology Catholic, the Incarnation is the act by God , to have been embodied in one man, Jesus Christ , at a time (the origin of the Christian era ) and place (Palestine, specifically Bethlehem in Galilee ) given. The Christian tradition sees as the perfect union without confusion of the divine Person of the Word and human nature after the Virgin Mary. Jesus is defined as a true man of a human will, and the true Word of God, whose divine will is common with that of God the Father.

Purpose of the Incarnation: The Redemption

Love is God incarnated by theology catholic love, to redeem lost man after the creation of the original sin from the clutches of the devil and this took the form of a man like other men: the incarnation Jesus makes sense in His Passion (the verb patior, suffer, endure) as being God incarnate should suffer like other men and feel the pain and anguish, having experienced in human life as any man, joy or sadness , emotions, affections, fatigue, anger, sleep, hunger or thirst: he has saved all mankind by dying on the Cross.

Alpha and Omega painting of the catacombs

The Incarnation would have been realized by the action of the Holy Spirit when it landed on the Virgin Mary and the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The birth of Jesus is commemorated on the day of Christmas by Christians, whether Catholic , Protestant or Orthodox. Some common early Christians believed that the incarnation had taken place at the time of baptism by John the Baptist in the Jordan, that is to say that the body of Jesus was adopted by God this time. The Catholic Church first condemned and opposed this design, called Adoptianism at various synods, but it was not until she was finally XII considered heretical.

The concept of incarnation is considered a mystery. Other mysteries are those of the Trinity and the Immaculate Conception. The cult of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the most commonly expressed faith in the Incarnation of the Word made flesh in a heart of flesh, a divine and human heart at a time. Alpha and Omega , beginning and end, Christ embodied in Nazareth to Judea and died crucified in Jerusalem is present as the Word from God at the beginning of everything at the Creation , and will be at the end of time when the Second Coming to judge the living and dead at the Resurrection of the Flesh (Credo).

The term era of the Incarnation means the period that succeeds the Incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. Also called AD.

In the Credo , the words "et incarnatus est" remember this mystery once Catholics bowed and sang the verse immediately following the words "De Maria Virgine", the Virgin Mary ..

In non-Trinitarian churches

Non-Trinitarian churches use the term less frequently incarnation, and more often the words of John 1:14 "The Word became flesh." Non-Trinitarian concepts vary according to the views on the preexistence of Christ. For Jehovah's Witnesses , and others who accept the existence of Christ before his birth, the idea of incarnation is similar in many respects to the orthodox belief. For groups that support the theology Socinian , and who deny the preexistence of Christ, for example, the Christadelphians, they considered that "the Word became flesh" indicates only that the "plan of God" became man. Christ is the incarnation of an idea, not a being who already existed in another form.

Quotes

  • "The Word, when he became incarnate, passed from ubiquity to space, from eternity to history, unlimited bliss to change and death" ( Jorge Luis Borges , Fictions).
  • "God became man because it is more difficult to be a man to be God. "( Voltaire )

References

  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, p. 102
  2. "The eternity of the divine essence is absolutely refuted by the incarnation of Christ, but only in a third time they are reconciled in the absolute knowledge in the form of the concept. The fall of the mind in time is then corrected; eternity is restored, it is more abstract, but alive. "Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, The paradoxes of eternity in Hegel and Bergson, in Philosophical Studies No. 59, ed. Puf, 2001 / 4, online article
  3. Hayward A. The Lord Jesus Christ is really down from heaven? 1979

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