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- Title: Cycles of Early-Modern Hodoeporics (Critical Essay)
- Author : Annali d'Italianistica
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 281 KB
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Physical motion, perhaps the most elemental of human pursuits, has often been considered the symbol of an interior, non-spatial activity. (1) The image of the journey repeats the familiar patterns of the individual's endeavors from birth toward death, from the exile of this "lacrymarum vallis" to a glorious world of personal salvation. Although motion could by no means be theorized as a part of the divine essence of the Trinity, for God (the Motor Primus), as immutable, is devoid of motion, the Second Person, Christ, the Word (Verbum, Logos), who was with the Creator in the beginning ("In principio erat Verbum," John 1:1), defined Himself, in His humanity, as the Way ("Ego sum via," John 14:6). As the course that leads humanity to the Creator (regressus ad Deum), He is viewed by Augustine as a Goal and a Way ("quo itur Deus, qua itur homo"), (2) but remains a mysterious operation within the inscrutable relationship that defines the persons of the Holy Trinity. This Via is, therefore, an inexplicable, mystifying element that transcends our spatial and chronological perceptions. It embodies an eschatological convergence of all that is created into the historical event of a collective salvation and the path "in virum perfectum in mensuram aetatis plenitudinis Christi" (Eph. 4:13), "the final Christ" ("le Christ Omega") postulated by Teilhard de Chardin.
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