To follow Christ is also to identify ourselves with the poor and powerless as he did. The Incarnation is the symbol of this identification. Through h… - Kurien Kunnumpuram
" "To follow Christ is also to identify ourselves with the poor and powerless as he did. The Incarnation is the symbol of this identification. Through his incarnation he inserted himself into the human family and became one with us. As Soares-Prabhu observes, “Jesus ‘declasses’ himself and adopts the life of an itinerant preacher without a home or means of subsistence.”
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About Kurien Kunnumpuram
Kurien Kunnumpuram (8 July 1931 - 23 October 2018 ) was a Roman Catholic theologian and Jesuit priest of India. He was the editor of AUC: Asian Journal for Religious Studies, contributed substantially towards the formation of an Indian Church, wrote numerous books and taught for more than fifty years.
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That is why individuals and peoples need a “healing of memories”. This does not mean that they have to forget past events. Rather, they have to learn to look at them in a new way. Instead of remaining prisoners of the past, they have to recover their freedom to forgive. As the pope says: “The deadly cycle of revenge must be replaced by the new-found liberty of forgiveness.”
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