Christology

Father Hardon’s writings on Christology explore the mystery of Jesus Christ as true God and true man. These articles examine the Incarnation, redemption, the mission of Christ, and the central role of Jesus in Catholic faith and salvation history.

Imitating Jesus Christ, Incarnate God

by John A. Hardon, S.J. We believe, that the Son of God assumed human flesh, body and soul, and dwelt among us, like one of us, in order to redeem us. We believe that His divine nature was substantially united to our human nature. We believe that Jesus Christ is God who became man and […]

Devotion to the Sacred Heart and Modern Christology

IIHJ Conference given by Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J. Any balanced approach to the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart must take into account what kind of thinking is going on in some nominally Catholic theological circles in our day. No doubt, there are some thoroughly orthodox theologians writing about the Devotion to the Heart […]

Book Review – The Nazarene

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Before describing the classic work The Nazarene, by Eugenio Zolli, we should say something about the author. Eugenio Zolli, Semitic scholar, was the chief Rabbi of Rome and convert to Catholicism. Born in Brody, Austrian Galicia in 1881, he died in Rome in 1956. His original name was Israel […]

Christ, The King of the Universe

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The spirituality of St. Paul derives all it’s meaning and finds all its purpose in one dominant mystery of the Christian faith—namely, the person of Christ as the natural Son of God. After all, what is Christianity except the religion of a human being who was and proved Himself […]

Christ, God’s Gift Through Mary

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The greatest gift God has given us is the gift of Himself in the Incarnation. The narrative which describes this gift in detail is the account of the Annunciation in St. Luke’s Gospel. “Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in […]

Christ Our Light

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. In his address for the opening of the Holy Year for 1975, Pope Paul VI said something that must have seemed odd to many people. He stressed the need especially for a renewal of faith among the faithful during this Jubilee Year of renewal and reconciliation. What makes this […]

Christ Our Strength

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We do not normally think of Christ or speak of Him as our strength. More frequently we refer to Him in terms He used of Himself when He said He was the Way, the Truth and the Life. Moreover, we usually ask our Lord to give us strength, but […]

Christ Our Teacher and Leader in Morality

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The foundation of Christian morality is not a set of rules. It is not even a list of commandments. It is a person. It is Jesus Christ. Certainly Christianity has moral principles. It is not, as some would say, merely an attitude or an approach to human conduct. No, […]

Devotion to the Precious Blood

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. St. Peter gives us the revealed foundation for our devotion to the Precious Blood. “You were redeemed,” says the Apostle, “not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as the Lamb without blemish or stain” (1 Peter 1:18-19). The Meaning of the […]

Jesus Christ, Incarnate God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The heart of Christianity is faith in the Incarnation. We believe that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity became man. We believe the Incarnation is the union of the divine nature of the Son of God with human nature in the person of Jesus Christ. We believe that […]

Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Truth

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present meditation is on Christ, the Truth, our duty to know Jesus Christ. There is no more stark contrast between the Old Testament and Christ’s understanding of the Decalogue than in the eighth commandment. As we have seen, the stress in the Mosaic code was on the prohibition […]

Jesus Christ, the Savior

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We are speaking on the theme of the redemption and we have so far seen that from the first chapters of Genesis, all through the Old Testament the chosen people were looking forward to a Redeemer. We also saw that sadly there were two kinds of messiah that the […]

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