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The human person is the event or being of relativity. The concept of person, as well as the idea that stands behind this concept, is a product of Christian theology. In other words, it grew in the first place out of the interplay between human thought and the data of Christian faith and so entered intellectual history. The concept of the person is thus, to speak with Gilson, one of the contributions to human thought made possible and provided by Christian faith.
It did not simply grow out of mere human philosophizing, but out of the interplay between philosophy and the antecedent given of faith, especially Scripture. More specifically, the concept of person arose from two questions that have from the very beginning urged themselves upon Christian thought as central: namely, the question, ‘What is God?” (i.e., the God whom we encounter in Scripture); and, “Who is Christ?”
It continues here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/06/23/the-notion-of-person-in-theology-by-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger/
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It did not simply grow out of mere human philosophizing, but out of the interplay between philosophy and the antecedent given of faith, especially Scripture. More specifically, the concept of person arose from two questions that have from the very beginning urged themselves upon Christian thought as central: namely, the question, ‘What is God?” (i.e., the God whom we encounter in Scripture); and, “Who is Christ?”
It continues here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/06/23/the-notion-of-person-in-theology-by-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger/
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