RECONCILIATION AND NEW TESTAMENT THE MAGISTERY OF JOHN PAUL II ON THE REDEMPTION
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The Magistery of the current Pontiff, when presenting the Christian doctrine concerning the Redemption, proclaims with particular force its revealing character; it manifests God's love which does not hesitate in delivering his Son to a death for the salvation of mankind and, as a result, revealing the dignity or value of man whom God loves to this extreme. All presentation of the dogma of the Redeption should point out this aspect, making man understand in this in way that it is a mystery which affects him to the very roots of his being.
This presentation of the doctrine presupposes a series of fundamental Christian truths. These can be grouped into three sections: a Christological motive (the human- divine character of Christ); an anthropological motive (the reality of man as a person, hence a being which communicates with other beings); and the saving historical motive (creation, sin and redemption as eras in the history of the Alliance).
Considering more closely the work of Christ, John Paul II analises with particular detail the Incarnation (a moment in which the body of the Son of God is prepared and through whose surrender, the Redemption is consummated); the Cross as the sacrificial donation of Jesus in which the Redemption is consummated; and the Resurrection (reality of the new creation which emanates from the Redemption).
The salvation work of Christ does not limit itself to an earthly existence culminating with the Resurrection, but exalted to the Heavens, continues working on the world to draw it towards the Father. The effects of Christ's action are multiple. Amongst them John Paul II underlines one in particular: the reconciliation to which he has dedicated an important part of his preaching.
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