Pelas rotas dramáticas da liberdade: uma aproximação aos últimos escritos de Hans Urs von Balthasar sobre o inferno

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, António
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/theologica.2016.2721

The Hell (a possible everlasting condemnation for whom having closed himself completely to God, love and relationship, in the loss of oneself) is one of the eschatological questions that today has been being subject of a profound theological revision. Hans Urs von Balthasar was, eventually, the contemporary Catholic theologian who carried out a reflection on the possibility of the tragedy of human freedom, in the horizon «ever greater» of the divine freedom, on the asymmetry between the gift of God (the Grace) and the human response. The reflection we present is based on the publication in Portuguese of the last writings of von Balthasar in which he clarifies, not without controversy and scandal for the ultraconservative hosts, his theological position about Hell. We try to show how Balthasar gets distance from the Augustinian certainty of an eternal condemnation, which has prevailed in theology and in the preaching of the Latin Church, and opens, in the sequence of orthodox theology and the Catholic mystic, to a hope of salvation for all. Its theological clarification has its foundation in the Theo-drama of Christ that, in its obedience until the death and death of the cross (Phil 2: 8), experiences and overcomes(redeems) the «infernal» distance that separates the sinner from God Holy.