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Material Goods and the Christian Ethos

Josip Ćurić ; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The author restricts himself in the present article to the message of the New Testament. His deductions can be especially interesting to the faithfUl who, in more recent time, feel sharply that the written documents of councils or synods do not draw the final line between the clerical and lay apostolate in the Church. The faithful still feel exposed to the attacks of importunate neoclericalism.
The Gospel has never given preference to any order, system or régime in the past. Neither will the Gospel in the future, until the Last Judgement, incline to any one of them by proclaiming it as typically »Christian«. This is why those who assume a definitive, absolute, totalitarian character must be evaluated critically in the light of the Gospel.
Christ endowed his faithful with maturity and gave them the power of discerning, the power of deciding in an understanding and responsible way, at personal risk, to choose how to realize in everyday reality the ideal of the Christian life. He gave us his procept with which he has not fettered us but has led us to the perfect freedom of God's children, because in the atmosphere of Love we are no more slaves to anything, we are no more slaves to anybody.

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Hrčak ID:

53431

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53431

Publication date:

22.8.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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