HOMINISATION AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE WRITINGS OF THE INDIAN SOCIAL THEOLOGIAN M.M. THOMAS
Keywords:
Divinization, Historicity, Kingdom of God, Hominisation, Humanisation, Inter-religious Dialogue, Mission, Salvation, Spirited Matter, SpiritualityAbstract
Redemption according to MMT is not the going back or the restoration of the stage before the fall or the lost paradise but the process of the growth of the human being towards freedom as God’s children engaged in an endeavour in collaboration with God for the creation of a new heaven and a new earth as God’s adult children (the Kingdom of God on earth). The Christian vocation to the Church is to witness and become a catalyst for the building of a new world and new culture. The goal of theology is salvific action which is the spiritual motive of humanisation. “The Christian spirituality is not something that happens between Church and God, but ‘between the world and God.’” The saving activity of Christ demands a certain mode of spirituality in us. The joys, aspirations, failings, uncertainties of the world form part of our adoration, confession, thanksgiving and intercession and the offering of ourselves for the transformation of the world.
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