Ο Ludwig Wittgenstein για την πίστη στην Ανάσταση (1937)

What inclines even me to believe in Christ's resurrection? I play as it were with the thought.--If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like every human being. He is dead & decomposed. In that case he is a teacher, like any other & can no longer help; & we are once more orphaned & alone. And have to make do with wisdom & speculation. It is as though we are in a hell, where we can only † a dream & are shut out from heaven, roofed in as it were. But if I am to be REALLY redeemed,--I need certainty--not wisdom, dreams, speculation--and this certainty is faith. And faith is faith in what my heart, my soul, needs, not my speculative intellect. For my soul, with its passions, as it were with its flesh & blood, must be redeemed, not my abstract mind. Perhaps one may say: Only love can believe the Resurrection. Or: it is love that believes the Resurrection. One might say: redeeming love believes even in the Resurrection; holds fast even to the Resurrection. What fights doubt is as it were redemption. Holding fast to it must be holding fast to this belief. So this means: first be redeemed & hold on tightly to your redemption (keep hold of your redemption)--then you will see that what you are holding on to is this belief. So this can only come about if you no longer support yourself on this†a earth but suspend yourself from heaven. Then everything is different and it is 'no wonder' if you can then do what now you cannot do. (It is true that someone who is suspended looks like someone who is standing but the interplay of forces within him is nevertheless a quite different one & hence he is able to do quite different things than can one who stands).

Μόνο η Αγάπη μπορεί να πιστέψει στην Ανάσταση

👉 Λούντβιχ Βίτγκενσταϊν, Πολιτισμός και αξίες, μτφρ. Μυρτώ Δραγώνα-Μονάχου, Κωστής Μ. Κωβαίος, Καρδαμίτσας, Αθήνα, 1986, σελ. 59-60.

Εἰ δὲ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, κενὸν ἄρα τὸ κήρυγμα ἡμῶν, κενὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ━ Κορ. Α΄, 15: 14.