Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: A Third Collection

Titel: A Third Collection

Stichwort: Erfahrung der Gnade

Kurzinhalt: Experience of grace, then, is ...: experience of man's capacity for self-transcendence, of his unrestricted openness to the intelligible, the true, the good

Textausschnitt: 42/3 Experience of grace, then, is as large as the Christian experience of life. It is experience of man's capacity for self-transcendence, of his unrestricted openness to the intelligible, the true, the good. It is experience of a twofold frustration of that capacity: the objective frustration of life in a world distorted by sin; the subjective frustration of one's incapacity to break with one's own evil ways. It is experience of a transformation one did not bring about but rather underwent, as divine providence let evil take its course and vertical finality be heightened, as it let one's circumstances shift, one's dispositions change, new encounters occur, and-so gently and quietly-one's heart be touched. It is the experience of a new community, in which faith and hope and charity dissolve rationalizations, break determinisms, and reconcile the estranged and the alienated, and there is reaped the harvest of the Spirit that is " [...] love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control" {Gal. 5:22). (32f; Fs) (notabene)
Kommentar (10.12.2003): Also, die Erfahrung der Gnade als
1) Erfahrung des Vermögens und Vollzuges der Selbsttranszendenz als Offenheit gegenüber dem Intelligiblen, Wahren und Guten
2) als Erfahrung der Behinderung dieses Vermögens und Vollzuges in einer zweifachen Weise: 2.1 durch die objektive Sünde der Welt, 2.2 durch die eigene Impotenz, dem Streben in der rechten Weise nachzukommen
3) Erfahrung der Heilung eines hartnäckigen krummen Habitus
4) als Erfahrung einer in der rechten Weise strebenden Gemeinschaft