It is even necessary, not to say vital, for
the fullness of human understanding.
Not exact matches
If God's eternity were seen as the
Fullness of Time, I can somehow
understand how God is immanent in history and in my
human temporality.
For this reason, Paul
understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «
Human nature, the common nature
of the whole race
of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort
of bodily
fullness, always under the sovereign command
of divine grace, but losing none
of its real freedom and power because
of its subordination.
The Son in his
human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts
of human hearts (Mk 2, 8; Jn 2, 25; 6, 61)-LSB-... thus] by its union to the divine wisdom in the person
of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his
human knowledge the
fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.
To my mind the faulty reasoning behind this has been a major block to
understanding how love in marriage stands in need
of constant purification if it is to achieve its
human fullness and its supernatural goal
of merging into love for God.
Second, most
of the great religious traditions teach a certain humility with regard to
human understanding of reality in its depth and
fullness.