The Ontology of "Paradise '49"

Abstract

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of the philosopher and theologian Bishop of Aachen—Klaus Hemmerle, a previously unpublished text of his is reproduced here in which he unveils the ontological horizon underlying some notes of Chiara Lubich from the summer of 1949 in which she narrates the mystical experience of God lived by her in unity with Igino Giordani and the group of her first companions. The article explores the foundations which found the cardinal points of the charism of unity and are expressed as a new ontology.