By Don Massimo LAPPONI. We have now reached the crucial point of these meditations, in which we must face with the utmost lucidity and courage the most burning points in which our vision of wisdom is confronted with ideas and mentality strongly diffused and, at least apparently, prevalent in our time. In this we will not … More For a renewal of theology XV
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. As we move towards the conclusion of these reflections, it is appropriate to emphasize that the new element in them present with respect to the most widespread theological vulgate, both in the traditional and in the progressive versions, is the centrality given to the mystery of love between man and woman … More For a renewal of theology XIV
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. Léon Bloy claimed that time is an illusion of the senses. The truth that hides behind this paradoxical affirmation can be experienced in our individual life as in the life of peoples. It happens, in fact, that some important intuition that we had in adolescence, or even in childhood, after being removed, … More For a renewal of theology XIII
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. What we have said about “praeambula fidei” and natural theology has already led us to enter into Trinitarian theology, the doctrine of creation and Christology. If, in fact, the foundation of all natural theology is – as has been said earlier – the metaphysical principle of the primacy of the act, the … More For a renewal of theology XII
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. We have already mentioned the fact that the wisdom perspective that is proposed here offers, among other things, the advantage of embracing in a unitary vision – «una simplex omnium» to use the words of Saint Thomas relating to divine knowledge (Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, art. 2, ad 2m) – … More For a renewal of theology XI
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. The axiom “nothing is created, nothing is destroyed”, widespread in scientific circles, could turn out to be nothing more than an arbitrary expression of an unjustified reductionism, which purports, precisely, to reduce all reality to purely physical inorganic chemistry and to flatten on it every biological and conscious manifestation. Admittedly, as … More For a renewal of theology X
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. «Let heaven, and stars, and earth, and rivers, and day, and night, and all the creatures that are under the hand of man, or are prepared for his use, rejoice, O Lady, that they were by thee in a certain manner raised up to the glory which they had lost; and … More For a renewal of theology IX
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. It is universally known that in Sacred Scripture the image of the marriage between man and woman is used, in different contexts, in the Old and New Testaments, as a symbol of the relationship of love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church. But the common exegetical … More For a renewal of theology VIII
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. If at the foundation of the moral life of man there is the original plan of God, namely the revelation of the Word and the Spirit through the experience of the interpersonal love of man and woman, in view of the generation, in their descendants, of the very divine Word by … More For a renewal of theology VII
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. We talked about Mary’s “fontal” role. The adjective was chosen specifically to emphasize the fact that Mary is not a marginal or occasional figure in the plan of creation and salvation, but, on the contrary, she fulfils a necessary and central function. We must, however, make it clear that the adjective “fontal” … More For a renewal of theology VI
By don Massimo LAPPONI. From the speech we have made so far emerges a fact of the greatest importance: the substantial role, and therefore not accessory, of woman and her relationship with man in the divine economy of creation and salvation. We have, in fact, emphasized the role of woman as the culmination of creation and … More For a renewal of theology V
By Don Massimo LAPPONI. There is a very impressive article by Mother Lioba – which you can read through the following link of which is worth paraphrasing some fundamental concepts to then develop them further. It has been said in the previous chapter that, according to the wisdom doctrines of the Old and New Testaments, … More For a renewal of theology IV
