Professional paper

The Hidden God - Deus Absconditus

Marijan Jurčević ; Theology in Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The Bible is tolling us about the hidden God (Iz 45, 15), and the experience confirms it. It is confirmed also by prophets st. John, st. Augustin, st. Thomas, Pascal, Luther and all the mistics. The idea of God being hidden is not plain at all. Being hidden doesn't mean being unknown, but being present in the world and in all poeple. The hidden God is not an unknown God. He reveals his hiddeness in different ways.
Jesus is God's touchable face on the earth. In him the God is »hidden« but nevertheless present. In Jesus transcendention and imatiention are equaled, and the Bible is His spoken word.
God's »being« is transcendent and therefore it remains hidden, but in the same time is also imanent, so that we experience His presence. God's imanence, that shows the way toward His transcendence, is revealed through the nature and ourselves. This is the way how we recognise the place of our God: Hi is in us and with us. In a special way the mistics testify it, especially M. Eckhart.

Keywords

God; transcendence; revelation; negative theology

Hrčak ID:

31270

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31270

Publication date:

17.8.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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