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Jesus Christ - The Bearer of the Water of Life
Mijo Nikić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3620-3016
; Filozofski fakultet Družbe Isusove, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The basic intention of the document Jesus Christ - The Bearer of the Water of Life, is to present the faithful and all people of good will with a Christian reflection, or better still, the Catholic view on the New Age ideology and spirituality which has pervaded all pores of society. New Age is seductive because it promises such a great deal. It is no wonder that serious thinkers classify it as a utopian movement. On the one hand, it is symptomatic of a society and culture undergoing a major crisis, and on the other hand, it is in the opinion of the Church the wrong answer to the deepest longings of the human heart for happiness and universal peace. The document rightfully contrasts Christ with New Age and states a fundamental truth, in which the Church believes: the conviction that only Christ is the bearer of the water of life, for which the human heart longs. Whosoever drinks of the water of New Age, shall thirst again, but whosoever drinks of the water which Christ gives, will for certain never thirst again. "The water I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life," says Jesus to the Samaritan woman who for a long time sought happiness without aim and in the wrong places, until she met Jesus who offered her water which wells up to eternal life.
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Hrčak ID:
1209
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Datum izdavanja:
3.9.2003.
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