HOMINISATION AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

A STUDY ON E SCHILLEBEECKX AND M M THOMAS

Abstract

The heart of Christian faith is the conviction that God has worked salvation in Jesus Christ for the whole universe. Therefore, the whole question is with regard to salvation or human destiny. In terms of etymology salvation comes from the Latin word salus. It is synonymous with the Sanskrit word sarvah which means whole, intact, integral, etc. The concept of ‘wholeness’ or ‘to be human’ presupposes two principles: the realization of all given potentials, and the liberation from all that hinders and destroys the wholeness. The destiny of the human person is thus salvation in two dimensions namely, the attainment of God and the fulfilment in and through the world with its completion in the eschaton.