'We Shall See Him as He Is’: Eternal Life and Beatitude | Prof. Bruce Marshall

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 27, 2022 at Cedarbrake Renewal Center as part of the Second Annual Texas Student Retreat: "The Meaning of Death and Eternal Life." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. His teaching specialties are Medieval and Reformation theology and systematic theology. His research interests include Doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, philosophical issues in theology, sacramental theology, and Judaism and Christian theology. He is the author of Trinity and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

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0:11.0	The first thing I want to note and emphasize is that the New Testament connects blessedness and eternal life
0:18.5	in a very striking way with seeing, with vision.
0:23.5	So you have in 1st John 3 a very formative text for Christian understanding of eternal life.
0:36.0	We're all familiar with this text. Beloved, we are God's children now. It does not yet
0:47.8	appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1:01.0	When he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1:10.0	So seeing is connected to being like the one who will appear. And in this context,
1:17.8	that's clearly Jesus in glory. It's Jesus appearing to us, being seen by us as he is. So seeing is connected to being like him, to the perfection
1:35.6	of our resemblance to him and of our union with him. And seeing is also connected, or if you like, being like him is connected to his appearing.
1:50.6	We cannot see him until he appears.
1:55.9	So seeing depends on appearing, and the appearing is not present. He does not presently appear to us as he is.
2:06.8	He is present to us, and he is present to us as he is in his full reality, above all, or most basically one might say in the Holy Eucharist, but he does not appear to us
2:24.3	as he is. He is present to us as he is, but not present such that he appears to us as he is.
2:37.0	There's a prayer before communion, which is attributed to St. Thomas,
2:44.4	Father, give to me your beloved son, whom I now propose to receive, this is my rough translation as we go along,
2:56.2	whom I now propose to receive under a veil, okay, to see face to face perpetually, perpetual
3:04.7	contempler FACIA.
3:08.3	So in the Eucharist we see Jesus as he is,
3:13.3	sorry, Jesus is present as he is, but we do not see him,
3:16.3	he does not appear to us as he is.
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