Vorlage:1954 Rezensionen Die letzten Dinge

• [1954-000] [Portugiesisch] Rezension zu: Guardini, Les fins dernières, in: Brotéria, 58, 1954, S. 242
• [1954-000] [Englisch] Natalie T. Darcy: Joyous message (Rezension zu: Guardini, The Last Things), in: The Catholic Worker, 21, 1954/55, 2 (September 1954), S. 4 [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=iTuKFK-wOTAC
  • S. 4: „The Christian message is a joyous one even when treating of death, justification after death, the Last Judgement and eternal life. In the hands of Father Guardini has the "last things" take on so particular a glow, however, that one can more than hope that the reading of this book will bring about the mental conversion which its author states is needed for modern man believe in revelation which is "truth beyond reason but still truth.“ With the faith in revelation a new light is giver to existence and man is oriented to his Creator in truth and love. Since this book is grounded in revelation, from it emerges man of the body as well of the spirit, man who has separated himself from his Creator and who must, therefore, suffer from that loss but man who is so loved by God that He could not leave His creatures desolate for eternity but brought him once man, through the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ, the message of eternal hope. Death is not a part of man´s nature but the result of an act. Man was created in a state of freedom but also of probation, free "to throw out the span of his life to God" but he did not stand the test, choosing in Adam, the progenitor of the race, to be as God and thereby breaking the link from God to man and being condemed to the sentence of sin and death. „The Last Things“ does not minimize the pain, loneliness and misery of the death of man; neither does it ignore the importance of Purgatory from which the soul through the grace of effectual repentance emerges justified and absolved. We are reminded that Christ too died and died as no other man died since „death is more truly death as the life it puts an end to is more truly life." But the Christian message is one of hope and its hope lies in the resurrection of Christ. Christ having risen, man too will rise and this resurrection will be not of the spirit alone but of man in reality with all his human dignity, actions and destinies. We do not know what the body will be like in eternity, but we have some small inkling of the work of grace on earth when we look upon a man animated by a mind and heart and spirit overflowing with the love of Christ and his fellow men in Christ. Man has the freedom of choosing to rise to his eternal salvation or perdition and in accordance with his choice his body will be blessed or accursed. This message of Christianity which had lost its vitality since the Middle Age but which is being revived in our time may, in the opinion of Father Guardini, relieve the tension brought about by the cleavage between matter and intellect. When the salvation of man is centered upon the whole man, when all man´s actions are governed by the heart – that union of blood and spirit which characterizes man - and when man's faith and hope in the resurrection of body and soul in Christ, the decision for or against God becomes more vital and the love of one´s fellow men in God more meaningful. One regrets the reading this revised edition of Father Guardini´s book that he did not find it necessary to amplify some of its sections, particulary that on Purgatory. However, it is a rarity in our time to find a book which leaves the reader wanting.“
• [1954-000] [Englisch] Richard Gilman: Rezension zu: Guardini, Die letzten Dinge, engl., in: Jubilee. A Magazine of the Church & Her People, 2, 1954, S. 62f. [neu aufgenommen] - [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=bhk1AQAAIAAJ