Dwelling Place of God



Dwelling Place of God

Introduction

Before dealing with the history of the Church requires a short and concise introduction to what we mean by history, the scanning of the time within which it moves, its research methods, concepts of church history that developed during the time, that is conceived of as the historical journey of the church in time.

The term "history" comes from the greek "story" that means investigation, investigation and research. History, therefore, is the science that investigates and conducts research on the man's past, therefore, the historian is someone who conducts surveys and research on the human past, which has a double aspect: that of experienced and known. Not all lived, however, and this is also known as the living space encompasses far superior to the known history. Moreover, the approaching of the historical experience is never naive and objectively open, but it's always picking and pushed by various interests. This depends on the nature of man, as being free, intelligent, and his conditioning. The time is conventionally divided into Past, Present and Future.

Discussion

The Past, as already experienced, it is no longer editable, but, nevertheless, is influential on the Present even if we do not have awareness, and so much more you have the more we are unaware, because it escapes our consciousness and our control.

The Future is a time not taken, even if it is conditioned by the past and the present. In this sense it is already virtually occupied. Indeed, the experience of the past and put it, we produce in this program for the future that affect us in our choices in the Present.

The Present is the time of evaluation, decision and responsibility, as a condition of freedom. The man, as a historical subject, is the being that lives in the present, but taken in and conditioned by the past and the future.

The man in this produces intentions, then, are realized in action: these, together, constitute history. History, then, is a story of intentions that are actions. It, therefore, can not only be a mere knowledge of the facts, but must be above all a knowledge of motivations and intentions of those who produced the facts. The fact in itself says little, what matters is to understand the motivational and intentional content that produced it. So the facts must always be read and interpreted.

Some say (V. Marx, Engel, etc..) That there are intrinsic to the history of the laws that regulate in a general sense of the facts and history in which those facts are produced. If this were true, would be eliminated or significantly conditioned the freedom of man, a slave to these laws which must bow to the superior. Would be destroyed individuality and human freedom, and thus also its responsibility. Making historical work means, in particular, to collect facts and interpret them. It is, therefore, a work of interpretation.

Unlike St. Augustine (354-430), in his City of God, the Church sees the story take place dynamically ...