Wounds of Christ: Wounds of the World. The Crucified and Resurrected Christ and Christians Towards a Suffering Humanity
Wounds of Christ: Wounds of the World. The Crucified and Resurrected Christ and Christians Towards a Suffering Humanity

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the spectacle of Christ’s wounds after His resurrection based on the account from the Gospel of John within the context of the dogmatic meaning of the resurrection from the dead and what it entails for humans. It mainly addresses the reasons why Christ was eager to show the scars of His Passion although His human nature had indeed transformed into an incorruptible, perfected and deified one. This gesture was proof that the person who had suffered was the same person who had defeated death, sacrificed His life and had risen from the dead out of His limitless love for the human race. The author then draws the link between this dogmatic truth and the ethos of the ecclesiastical life, as he contends that the members of the Church should lead a Christ-like life by being compassionate and affectionate towards other peoples’ suffering, i.e. the suffering of the entire world.

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