Beatific vision

During the times of the Christian church, Mysticism played an important role and also made a major impact on the Christians. Mysticism was always there for the people when they were feeling distant from God and wished to get closer to him. Those who went through mysticism had a completely new aspect of their lives and what it meant to be a follower of Jesus Christ. The Christians thought that through mysticism, they could have interactions with God that make them stronger believers and live a…

he believes we rendered ourselves slaves to evil. We were once in a “paradisal state” until we abused it and extradited ourselves from God. This state was based upon beatific vision or achieving a state of being that is on the same plane as God. We were once impervious to evil even with our free will, but rejected our beatific vision for an undisclosed reason. Now subject to the affects of natural disasters and death, we grew ever distant from our original theistic state. Perhaps we abandoned…

neighbor to this everlasting happiness. All men have the desire for happiness, however God knows that all do not wish to seek Him, thus he gives all a choice between Heaven and Hell. Hell is the polar opposite of heaven. Rather than have the beatific vision in which one sees God in his glory, Hell is the eternal separation from God. Through sacred doctrine, one knows that this is not desired by God, but a choice one makes through the rejection of God repeatedly in everyday life. There is…

God is true beauty and true goodness; humans can only understand what true beauty and true goodness is like through the beatific vision. That is gazing fully on the face of God. Only then would humans be able to attain true beauty and true happiness that lasts for eternity. Becoming holy is possible, but it takes work. Someone can become holy only by becoming like God as far…

A general appraisal (=evaluation), and the third part an appraisal of what Rausch writes on a specific issue: I believe in God. In chapter three of Thomas Raunchy book, I believe in God, it starts with an opening article of the apostles creed , “ I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth((Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, I believe in God ,Publication Year: 200, pp 31-62)” Which is considered as the foundation of everything else which Christians believe. On the other hand, this…

Interreligious Dialogue Approach: “Doing Before Knowing” with James Fredericks Tension between Evangelization and Interreligious Dialogue Practicing interreligious dialogue invites the Christians to be aware of any triumphalism when investing their energies in the goal of Christianity’s “eschatological hope.” Fredericks observes that official teachings of the Church confuse us about the meaning of dialogue; for example, the two documents Dominus Iesus and Redemptoris Missio reads,…

“Sin, Satan and the Snake” One can help when thinking about sin to go back the Genesis account. Genesis 3 takes an enormous and a very important role in the history and the understanding of the intrusion of sin. It lays in sequence the transgression and its consequence, which is constructed in two parts: part one brings to us the transgression, 3:1—7, and part two the chastisement, 3:8—24.7 Nevertheless, the concentration of this exposition will be on part one. Throughout the Scriptures one sees…

Grace is the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings. There are four theologians I would like to discuss that share their own understandings of grace. These theologians include Augustine, Aquinas, Luther and Rahner. There are many similarities and differences among the theologians I have listed. First of all, Augustine was born in 354 A.D. in Africa and did not originally start out as a Christian. He eventually converted to…

out that Aristotle didn’t know about the possibility of an eternal supernatural happiness, so he only spoke about ordinary human happiness. That final supernatural happiness is the ultimate goal that all human action aims towards, it is the ‘beatific vision of God.”’ (Classical Ethics, 124). Kant argues that happiness has to have qualification or it can’t be good, “… even happiness, Aristotle’s candidate for that which is good in itself, is not good without qualification:” (Ethics book, 241).…

his public life. It inspired me to write further on Hamilton’s legacy. For Alexander Hamilton, to be seen as trustworthy in the eye of the common people was paramount. For thinkers like him, they gave no thought to this idea of Heaven or a beatific vision at the end of their lives where they would meet their Maker. They were selfless. As a result of the Enlightenment, their focus turned to earthy greatness. Not in the sense of personally acquiring wealth and power, but rather establishing a…