The Church's involvement in the development of the world cannot be accidental and occasional, but has to be based on principles, adherence to which will allow avoiding numerous problems that arise at the meeting point of the Church and the world. The article discusses four principles the Church has to be guided by when participating in the development of the world: the principle of being faithful to its own mission, the principle of the just autonomy of worldly things, the principle of dialogue, and the principle of the good of the human person. The first principle reminds one about the main goal of the Church, whose mission may not be limited to earthly duties. The second one deals with the proper autonomy that is due to the earthly reality, and that is not tantamount to the independence of the Creator. The third principle – the one of dialogue – can be considered, on the one hand, a sign of the Church’s being open to the world, and on the other, its basic relation with the world. And finally, the fourth principle points to the good of man, who should always be the main value in the development of the world.
The mystery of being has occupied philosophers from the dawn of time until today. The article tries to show how three contemporary theories, those of the Polish thinker Władysław Stróżewski, the German philosopher Karl Jaspers, and the Frenchman Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, cope withthis mystery. Each of these points to the metaphysical necessity of being, from which flows their affirmation of being and the accompanying love for the world and its people. And even though these theories originate from three different philosophical traditions: Thomistic, existential and personalistic, their positions have a single source and a common core.
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Być chrześcijaninem – co to właściwie znaczy? Czym jest chrześcijaństwo w swej najgłębszej istocie? Co teologia Josepha Ratzingera/Benedykta XVI wnosi do rozumienia christianoi i christianitas – pojęć rzeczywistości, egzystencjalnej głębi? Promienie odpowiedzi na wszystkie te pytania schodzą się w jeden punkt, w jedno centrum, którym jest On – Jezus Chrystus, Przebity, z którego oglądu (okiem ciała, rozumu, serca, woli, wiary) wynika wszystko, wszelkie rozumienie, wszelka nowość, wszelka istota rzeczy: chrześcijaństwa i życia jako takiego.
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The biblical history of salvation results in tightening the bond between God and man more and more closely, though there is a sudden change in the quality between the Old and New Testaments that makes the bond so far expressed through the Covenant to fulfil it self in the theandric communion in the Person of Jesus Christ. Christianity arises as a communion and, as such, it fulfils itself in the Church, through the Holy Spirit: it consists in making a gift of oneself and relying on the gift. J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows how Christianity not only enters the structures of reality, but – in fact − constitutes its most appropriate − since salutary − structure and a hermeneutic key to understand man. What seems paradoxical, or even nonsensical in Christianity, as a matter of fact, breaks the absurdity of atheistically ideologised structure of the world and thinking.
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