FROM THE LOGIC OF LOVE TO THE LOGIC OF FREEDOM: ST JOSEPH - AN ICON OF PERFECT CHARITY
Keywords:
Fiat, Freedom, Justice, Love, Relationship, ResponsibilityAbstract
“The logic of love is always the logic of freedom” (Patris Corde, 7). For, as St John in his Epistle (I Jn 4:18) testifies, “[…] perfect love casts out fear.” Love, freed from fear, dares for what is seemingly impossible. The very life of St Joseph is an epitome of what Pope Francis calls “creative courage” and “love with extraordinary freedom.” This extraordinary courage and freedom dared St. Joseph, on the one hand, to recognize ‘the not-yet’ dimensions of the loving relationship with Mama Mary and Child Jesus, and, on the other, to accept the unknown risks in their future course of life. With authentic freedom, St. Joseph said ‘fiat’ to God’s will, as revealed to him in the Law (Lk 2:22.27.39) and through the dreams (Mt 1:20; 2:13.19.22). He could, therefore, own the responsibilities of his decisions and bear the consequences of his actions. Thus St Joseph proved himself a “just man” who could transcend the “norms of right order” (justice), and serve Mary and Jesus with “extraordinary freedom” derived from “the logic of love.”
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E.H. Gombrich, Symbolic Images, London: Phaidon, 1972, 127.
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Hobbes, Leviathan, 64-65.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. T.K. Abbott, London: Longmans, 1923, 176.
Immanuel Kant, Kants Gesammelte Schriften, ed., Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1900, 429.
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Kachappilly, K. (2022). FROM THE LOGIC OF LOVE TO THE LOGIC OF FREEDOM: ST JOSEPH - AN ICON OF PERFECT CHARITY. Asian Horizons, (2), 22–33. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/3710
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