La Persona Dei nel pensiero di Italo Mancini

In his configuration of the theme of the Persona Dei Mancini passes first of all from an initial metaphysical theism, where the person is an attribute of a God rationally demonstrated, to a philosophy of religion understood as an hermeneutics of revelation in which the theme of the Persona Dei is used to found the eschatology in a proleptic perspective. The prolepsis is expressed then in doxological terms through which it is possible to have a notitia Dei and of a God as a person, who in the logic of double thoughts is discovered to be the Persona Christi who, in the paradoxicality of the cross which connotes it, can give an adequate sense to the eschatological prolepsis. In the different periods of his thought – which the essay reconstructs in a theoretical way – Mancini suggests so different looks at the personality of God and develops more and more the importance of a God who is person because he intervenes in history with liberty even if he keeps a side of inaccessible mistery that man cannot dominate but only invoke in oxymorical terms.