Lecture 39 Outline - Poverty of Spirit (Johannes Baptist Metz)
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Foreword: The Human Condition. Unlike the animals we do not arrive in this world with a ready-made identity. Compare Walker Percy.
- Christology: God becomes human (in a divine way)
- Temptations: Jesus becomes needy as we are.
- Temptations and the Fall
- Cross: Jesus assumes our position of God-forsakenness
- On the cross he pays our penalty
- Anthropology: We become human (by being totally open to God)
- Christ gives us a model
- Acknowledging poverty does not undermine our humanity but insures it
- Our Innate Poverty
- We are beggars
- Transcendental neediness
- Our choice: accept our poverty or be anxious
- Poverty freely accepted
- We don't belong to ourselves
- Must surrender self to find self
- Finding God and self in one's neighbor (Matt 25: 31-46)
- Concrete shape of poverty
- Finiteness
- Dregs of Poverty
- Submitting to one greater than ourselves
- Only in committing ourselves to this "Thou" do we hear ourselves endlessly called to the full, taking possession of that priceless, irreplaceable "I" whom we are each meant to be.
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