Dolor y Sufrimiento Humano: Lugar Teológico en el que se Manifiesta el Misterio del Amor Divino

Abstract

Being an experience deeply rooted in man, pain and suffering are realities that could be approached from multiple approaches, more or less scientific, hence the need to briefly define the criteria that will be used for this approach. In the first place, being the object of the work itself to enter into the bioethical perspective on pain and suffering, we have considered it decisive to approach the problem in the first place from the founding human sciences for our own believing perspective. It is a matter of entering into what philosophy and theology affirm in this respect, not without first having tried to specify the biological dimension of the experience of pain. In the second place, we will make a brief statement in which the theme will be brought down to the bioethical perspective and that which the Church proposes from her Magisterium in the face of human pain and suffering. What the text wants to present is that Theology does not justify the existence of evil but it does offer arguments that from the history of salvation allow us to recognize the reason for the facts, since suffering, despite belonging to the transcendental dimension of man, is not detached from the reality in which it is immersed. In this sense, the mystery of human suffering can constitute a privileged place for understanding the mystery of divine love, to the point that it can be affirmed, in a believing perspective, that "without the suffering of Christ it is folly to try to understand the suffering of man" (Polaino, 1993, p. 476).