Hilary of Poitiers: Christ, the Church and Humanity
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This article was published in German under the original title "Hilarius von Poitiers: Christus, die Kirche und die Menschheit" by Väter der Kirche: Ekklesiales Denken von den Anfängen bis in die Neuzeit: Festgabe für Hermann Josef Sieben SJ zum 70. Geburtstag / Johannes Arnold (ed. lit.), Rainer Berndt (ed. lit.), Ralf M. W. Stammberger (ed. lit.), Christine Feld (ed. lit.), 2004, ISBN 3-506-70423-0, pp. 389-403. For this edition, the text was translated into Portuguese by Daniel Laranjo and Marcos Pereira.
Abstract: Through a didactic analysis of Saint Hilary of Poitiers’ ecclesiological view, the author demonstrates how the image of the “Body of Christ”, applied to the Church, expresses the character of identity founded in the person of Christ, who assumed the human gender, giving it the perspective of salvation. Such “assumption” of the humanity in Christ, thanks to his glorious body, manifests the mysterious union that reveals the eschatological implications of the Kingdom of God.
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