What
is truth? Pilate was not alone in
dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political argument and in
discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally experienced as
disturbing. Yet if man lives without
truth, life passes him by; ultimately he surrenders the field to whoever is the
stronger. "Redemption" in the fullest
sense can only consist in the truth becoming recognizable. And it becomes recognizable when God becomes
recognizable. He becomes recognizable in
Jesus Christ. In Christ, God entered the
world and set up the criterion of truth in the midst of history. Truth is outwardly powerless in the world,
just as Christ is powerless by the world’s standards: he has no legions; he is
crucified. Yet in his very
powerlessness, he is powerful: only thus, again and again, does truth become
power.
- Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
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