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Date Posted: 01/16/06 6:43:31pm
In reply to:
Geo
's message, "Re: 4-D" on 01/16/06 2:14:09pm
pjk says: I wrote you earlier
>this week i do have fears about the future. even
>christ cried out to his father, "Why have you forsaken
>me?" Perhaps that utterance is not an expression of
>fear, but it is not protean."
I disagree pjk: The myth of Christ is very protean, as is the life of Christ as we know it: His was the great model for psychic versatility….
pjk says: in this country realism is often confused with
>pessism, perhaps due to ingrained desires for
>disney-esque endings.
I don’t agree, its probably due to something around for a lot longer that Disney (maybe an inspiration for Disney): Christianity: hope being one of the three theological virtues (the other grace and charity):
Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience makes doubtful what is certain, and turns a very short time into a long one. Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end." [St. Theresa of Avila]
From corinthians:
"The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity."
Hope is a belief that things are obtainable regardless of the remoteness of the probabilities. In world theology, hope recognizes probabilities, but is not attached to the outcome. Hope also implies a certain amount of perseverance, believing that something is possible even when there is evidence to the contrary.
The counterpart to the theological virtues are the theological vices: blasphemy, despair and hatred:
Psalm 30:8-12
"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."
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