Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2019
Abstract
This article takes two apparently very diverse theologians, Mother Maria Gysi, an Orthodox nun, and Leonardo Boff, a Roman Catholic liberation theologian, and shows how both present a vision of holiness that draws on the inverted perspective of Jesus that reveals the end-point of human life already in the centre of our daily existence. For Boff, this is in his understanding of saints, and especially St Francis of Assisi, as humanly warm people, whilst for Mother Maria Gysi it has to do with the encounter with the end-point, freedom in and through death.
Both also see the need to be virtuous, as part of this journey towards the end-point.