{"id":46370,"date":"2023-03-30T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=46370"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:27:10","slug":"the-heart-in-the-gospels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-heart-in-the-gospels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart in the Gospels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In all four of the gospels \u2013 but especially in Luke \u2013 the organ of the heart plays an essential, if not central role. The humanistic points of view, or rather the presuppositions of the corresponding gospel passages, are multilayered and distinctly differentiated in themselves; an overview of the totality \u2013 and an intensive effort for each individual heart-word \u2013 leads further and opens great, astonishing horizons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>According to all the Gospels, the heart is an organ of compassion, of soulful participation in the events of the world, and of one&#8217;s own, emotion-centered involvement with them. Thus, the grieving widow of Nain, whose only son had (apparently) deceased, was close to the Christ Jesus, \u00abto his heart\u00bb (\u00abWhen the Lord saw her, her misfortune went to his heart, and he said to her, Do not weep!\u00bb [Quam cum vidisset Dominus, misericordia motus super ea dixit illi: Noli flere!] Luke 7:139). Mourning, on the other hand, filled the disciples&#8217; hearts with the realization of Christ&#8217;s imminent death (John 16:6) \u2013 a sorrow of heart that, according to the words of Christ in the farewell discourses, was to give way to an inner joy of the same organ following the resurrection and second coming (\u00abBut I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one can take from you.\u00bb [Iterum autem videbo vos, et gaudebit cor vestrum, et gaudium vestrum nemo tollit a vobis.] John 16:22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a few places in the Gospels, there is talk of a \u00abhardness\u00bb of heart, or a \u00abhardness in the heart\u00bb (duritia cordis), where Christ Jesus made known people\u2019s lack of empathy, and their lack of compassion for those who are suffering and on the sidelines \u2013 for example, the sick man with the \u00abwithered hand\u00bb, whose imminent healing by Christ was observed suspiciously and inwardly apathetically by those present in the synagogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>From: Peter Selg, \u00abMysterium Cordis \u2013 von der Mysterienst\u00e4tte des Menschenherzen\u00bb [Mysterium Cordis \u2013 from the Mystery Place of the Human Heart]. Dornach 2003, p. 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Monika Werner<br><strong>Image<\/strong> Sofia Lismont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all four of the gospels \u2013 but especially in Luke \u2013 the organ of the heart plays an essential, if not central role. The humanistic points of view, or rather the presuppositions of the corresponding gospel passages, are multilayered and distinctly differentiated in themselves; an overview of the totality \u2013 and an intensive effort for each individual heart-word \u2013 leads further and opens great, astonishing horizons. According to all the Gospels, the heart is an organ of compassion, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9186,"featured_media":46012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8848,9115],"tags":[11316,8819],"class_list":["post-46370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-consciousness","tag-2023-12-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}