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The citation of the title for tonight's talk,

Christ fully reveals man to himself.

This comes from the famous number 22 of Gaudi Mittspez.

This is the pastoral constitution on the church in the modern world from the famous number 22 of Gaudi mit spes. This is the pastoral constitution on the church

in the modern world from the Second Vatican Council. It merits, in fact, to read the fuller

passage in which this occurs since the fuller passage is packed with very rich Christology

and which reaps rich anthropological fruit.

The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate word does the mystery of man take on light.

For Adam, the first man was a figure of him who was to come, namely Christ the Lord.

Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation

of the mystery of the Father and his love, fully reveals man to himself, fully reveals

man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear. Crucially, this passage enumerates an anthropological teleology, a

Christo-antropological teleology, as it were, in that humankind is ordered to Christ.

All of humanity converges onto Christ. He is the reference point. He is the nexus of all of human history and of humanity itself.

And note the unusual way this passage links, Adam and Christ. Usually this linking goes in only one direction,

namely from Christ back to Adam, in that he's the new atom, a sort of recovered atom or

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