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Christ the Word

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In an age of technical achievements and the mechanical repetition of words the unique Redemptive action of Christ The Word is particularly significant. Men are obliged in the exercise of free-will to choose Christ, who is the Word and brings the words of life, or Satan whose words are lies leading to death. Life eternal is the proper end of the whole man, but since the Fall he is open to temptation, and most of all to temptation through natural pride. Thus his especial tendency to pride is found in those activities which distinguish him from the other living creatures. His reason, a common object of idolatry, his humour—did not Bernard Shaw among other satirists take refuge from faith in a kind of pseudo-Godlike mockery? — his ability to use tools, whether useful or artistic or for pleasure, and above all his power to communicate the life of his soul through language, to other souls.

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Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers