REPARATION,Arul Jeba Packiaraj Y.

REPARATION

Arul Jeba Packiaraj Y.

The team reparation lends itself to a variety of meanings in both the profane and religious contexts. It may signify the action of repairing or keeping in repair, and when so used by a theologian or religious writer it designates the whole work of restoring men to the friendship of GOD. In moral its use implies restitution for a personal injury for which the compensation cannot be measured exactly.

It is related to sin in the history of dogma the concept of reparation is intimately bound to the notion of sin as a personal injury or insult to God. Example Adam had been constituted the moral head of the human race, and his sin mot only alienated mankind from God but was also a personal injury or insult to God because it deprived Him of what is his by strict right. Man is subject to the consequences of sin, which is a reality of his history.

In a famous sentence Locke declared that "Where there is no property there is no injustice," suggesting perhaps that justice pertained only to rights to property in physical objects. But he did not believe that justice was concerned with only these rights for he immediately went on to say that the "idea of property" is a "right to any thing" and the Treatise claimed specifically that "every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. Locke qualifies these statements with the warning that punishment and reparation must be "proportionate to his Transgression," and are the "only reasons why one man may do harm to another." The greater the transgression, the greater will be the injury it causes, the harder it will be to make reparation for that injury, and consequently the more it must be restrained. Finally since the injured person is owed satisfaction for his injury reparation may include apology or a plea for forgiveness.

According to the Theology or the Christian writes in modern world times, especially by the reward of the ancient devotion to the humanity of Christ in the symbol of His love for man, the scared Heart, the Church has promoted among the faithful the practice of reparation.