From Slavery to the Freedom of the Will – An Exegesis to the Prodigal Son’s Parable from the Perspective of Moral Theology
From Slavery to the Freedom of the Will – An Exegesis to the Prodigal Son’s Parable from the Perspective of Moral Theology

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims, in the form of a exegesis to the Parable of the Prodigal Son,to highlight a few nuances which the Eastern Fathers propose in understanding thefreedom of the human will, of the report between freedom and grace and of theprovidential and savior work of God with the world. The sin it means the estrangementof the man from the unique spring of the life, from God, the leaving out from thefather’s house in a foreign country and the trying of existing autonomously. But inthe land of the sin the life is diminishing, the nature becomes weak and poor, and theexistence is transformed into survival. From this existential failure the man cannotdeliver himself by himself! The merciful and providential love of God accompaniesthe Prodigal Son also in the exile of the sin. The coming into sense of the beginningof the salvation doesn’t belong exclusively either to the godlike grace or to thehuman liberty. The grace can support the liberty for entering in the naturalness of thecollaboration only because the naturalness of the collaboration it is the grace. So itbegins the road towards the Father’s House. And the salvation of the creature it holdson the Eucharistic feast: the fattened Calf sacrifi ced Himself for the live of the world.The present study also makes some emphases of the way in which God searches,receives and forgives the strayed sheep.

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