Jaarboek Thomas Instituut 1997 - Thomas Instituut te Utrecht

DE TOEGANG TOT CHRISTUS 61
SUMMARY
"Rabbi, where do you live?" (In. 1,38). This question of Andrew and
John, along with Aquinas' commentary on it, is taken up by the
author, in order to discuss a hermeneutics of Christ. The author
argues that Jesus is not a figure from the past (1), but someone to be
met with in the present (2), and not outside of the (visible and
invisible) Church (3). The hermeneutics implied sums up four points
of departure: the faith in the living Lord Jesus, the inadequacy of the
categories of time (and place), the inadequacy of language, and the
inadequacy of images, of which the ones from the risen Christ are the
most important ones. In concluding the author returns to Aquinas'
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