Vida y muerte: una reflexión teológico-fundamental

Abstract

Life and God are established as realities that fit together not in an abstract way but, rather, historically. Both realities occur and thusly exist. This dynamic harmonization of God and life does not exclude death as a reality that concerns humanity, but instead confronts humanity with the sense of its radical finitude and immanence, and at the same time questions the meaning made of God's infinitude and transcendence. Now, the affirmation that faith in the God of Jesus Christ does not seem incompatible with affirming a death of God, but rather-upon overcoming the plan of an immutable divinity, apathetic and distant from the destiny of death that so afflicts humanity-resolves the contradiction between life and death inasmuch as it posits an identification on God's part with a dead man, Jesus of Nazareth, whom this faith proclaims resurrected. In this way it gives a name to the unity of the difference of life and death, establishing the person of Jesus as the concrete key to the do-paradoxization of Christian faith.