The
sense of history is in exodus
Has
our human adventure a sense?
The question
of the sense of our adventure is compromised with the adventure
itself. History
takes man on board of the folly. The reason of history, indeed, is
not in the reason but in the history which crucifies the reason.
Cross and resurrection. Chance for the authentic human one who is
never as much himself as when he is exposed out of himself.
The
search of 'sense' can be double like the double significance of the
term itself. Is it about where history is ultimately going to, its
end or its goal? Is it about the significance or the value of this
very movement?
Is
there a sense of History and which is it? At this question one cannot
answer by specifying a goal. Each goal is particular and provisional.
To build the whole of the history as a single history with a single
goal does not go without bypassing the most important. The question
of the sense of history is compromised with our adventure itself. It
cannot evacuate that of the sense of man. Not the sense of an ideal
and abstract man projected in the future, but the sense of the
concrete existential man who has to decide about himself in the
actuality of a 'now'. History is heavy with significance.
It is heavy with the decision of the humans through uncertainty and
risk. This exciting and at the same time distressing human risk
through adventure… The
Word of God itself, along the whole biblical revelation, takes
significance only through the human-divine adventure.
The
reason wants to entreat this risk. In vain. A project like that one
of Vico, i.e. the dream of a 'New Science' seeking 'to
fix the eternal laws on which depends the destiny of all the
nations',
undoubtedly remains an Utopia for ever. Or logic is there and history
is not; or history is there and logic is not. It is impossible to
embrace historical adventure and the logical necessity. Unless to
buckle it up in the cyclic enclosure of eternal return. But history
refuses the cycle. It has to remain infinitely open.
Each
present 'now' is decisive. It bears sense and consistency in itself.
It has not to be liquefied in the projection of a hypothetical
future. But each present 'now' can only have sense and consistency in
itself and for itself when it is open to an 'other' dimension. A
prophet has not to 'repeat' the continuation of history in the way of
Nostradamus, but to open a 'now' towards new prospects and the
urgency of a decision. To reveal the sense of History cannot be a
task of a soothsayer handling small bones or excavating the entrails of
history to get a control of the flow of events. It can be only a task
of prophet opening - prophain -
a luminous space ahead and revealing its transcendence.
The
sense of the human adventure is
open to an 'elsewhere', open on an eternity, open to another order,
open to an infinite 'why', open to a ceaseless exodus, open on an
absolute gratuity.
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