Bliss

The Sermon on the Mount, Jan Brueghel the Elder Ä. (1598)

Beatitude (from idg. Salin "luck, salvation") describes a state of perfect redemption or salvation, but also of happiness . In Christianity, bliss should come to perfection in the kingdom of heaven , but it is already a promise for this life, as is expressed in particular in the Beatitudes at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount .

The beatification process is in the Catholic Church , says a church legal process at the conclusion of the pope that a deceased person be called blessed and must be honored as such in public. With a beatification, the church expresses the trust that the person concerned has already reached perfection with God .

literature

• Paul Althaus : Bliss . In: Religion Past and Present . 3. Edition. Volume 5, pp. 1686-1688
• U. Becker: Bliss . In: L. Coenen et al. (Ed.): Theological glossary of terms for the New Testament , Volume II / 2 (1971), pp. 1133–1135
• Wolfgang Beinert et al .: Art. Bliss . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church , 3rd edition. Volume 9, pp. 437-442
• E. Büchsel: Art. Beatitude of the Gentiles . In: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Vol. 9, pp. 570-574
• F. Hauck, G. Bertram: makarios, makarizo, makarismos . In: G. Kittel (Ed.): Theological Dictionary for the New Testament, Volume 4 (1942), pp. 365–373
• Nikolaus Wicki: The doctrine of heavenly bliss in medieval scholasticism from Petrus Lombardus to Thomas von Aquin , Freiburg 1954
• Bliss, eternal . In: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Volume 9, pp. 574-579
• Bliss. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 16 : Sea life – speaking - (X, 1st section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 528-538 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Web links

Wiktionary: Bliss  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Dictionary articles in older reference works at zeno.org