The sacramentality of history

a dimensão escatológica da sacramentalidade

Abstract

This article examines sacramentality as a fundamental theological-hermeneutical category for understanding God's self-communication in history and human embodiment. Beginning with the Incarnation, historical, corporeal, and symbolic reality acquires a sacramental dimension, becoming a space for the manifestation of God's presence and action. The reflection begins with Jesus' filial relationship with the Father as an anthropological and salvific paradigm and develops a theological reading that encompasses liturgy, the body, and history. Drawing on authors such as Karl Rahner, Louis-Marie Chauvet, and Karl-Heinz Menke, as well as the patristic tradition, the article proposes an expansion of the concept of sacrament beyond the classical septenary, interpreting it as a key to understanding the relationship between grace and history. The study counters the spiritualist and individualist tendencies of modernity and reclaims embodiment and community as spaces of revelation. The study concludes that sacramentality expresses God's self-communication in humans, lending theological depth to the concrete experience of faith.