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The Solemnity of Solemnities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Edgar Hardwick
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The work of our salvation is a unity. As the creed of the mass proclaims, it was for us men and for our salvation that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, came down from heaven; was made flesh by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary; and was made man. Within that same context of ‘for us men and for our salvation', the creed goes on to place the other mysteries of Christ: his passion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and exaltation. The trend of recent study1 of the mystery of Christ's resurrection is to see this mystery within the unity of the work of salvation. This does not mean that the apologetical value of the resurrection is minimized, nor that the necessary distinctions that are made in soteriology between the various mysteries of Christ, especially between his passion and resurrection, are to be discarded. But it does mean that we do not get the full understanding of the resurrection until we see it as a saving mystery; indeed, as the saving mystery.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 14 , Issue 166 , April 1960 , pp. 435 - 443
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Copyright © 1960 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Cf. F. X. Durrwell, La Resurrection de Jésus Mystère de Salut (2), Le Puy-Paris, 1954. Christus Victor Mortis (Collection of studies), Rome, 1958.

2 The English version of the Easter Vigil is quoted from The Masses of Holy Week and the Easter Vigil, by G. L. Diekmann, Longmans, London, 1957.

3 Cf. O. Cullmann, Early Christian Worship, p. 70.

4 Cf. The Body, by J. A. T. Robinson. Ch. 3, “The Body of the Resurrection'.

5 Briefly, objective redemption means the work of Christ by which he merited, °r achieved our redemption; subjective redemption means the receiving of Christ's wen and achievements by the redeemed.—Editor.

6 Parousia means the second coining of Christ.—Editor.