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2016 | 16 | 277-292

Article title

Theological Anthropology at the Basis of Inter-Denominational Controversies: Dialogue within the World Council of Churches

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Antropologia teologiczna u podstaw kontrowersji międzywyznaniowych: dialog w obrębie Światowej Rady Kościołów

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Abstracts

EN
The article discusses moral concerns, which are a challenge for Churches and constitute principal foci of controversy. Anthropological questions underpin moral issues. The answer to the question about the source of human dignity and inherent human rights determines the response to specific matters, such as defining the beginning of human life and its inviolability, the approach to abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and even disability. The creation of man in God’s image and cooperation with the Creator in the development of creation results in the need for a proper setting of the world, including the establishment of a social, political, and economic order serving each man. The way to overcome the differences in the interpretation of Christian anthropology – and thus determine the moral issues – are ecumenical dialogues in which the parties seek to discover the truth. Dialogue must be made in the two dimensions simultaneously: vertical (the essence of faith) and horizontal (social and moral issues). The unity of faith determines the unity in moral issues. If dialogue is to bear fruit in the form of mutual recognition, the parties should avoid anthropological errors contained in contemporary thinking (a.o. materialism, atheistic socialism, genetic reductionism, utilitarianism, and relativism as well as the falsehood of gender ideology). The recipe for this is to return to the biblical anthropology and to a patient and humble search for the truth.
PL
Artykuł podejmuje zagadnienie kwestii moralnych, które jako główne ogniska kontrowersji stanowią dziś wyzwanie dla Kościołów. U podstaw kwestii moralnych znajdują się zagadnienia antropologiczne. Odpowiedź na pytanie o źródło ludzkiej godności i przysługujących człowiekowi praw warunkuje odpowiedź na kwestie szczegółowe, takie jak: określenie początku życia ludzkiego i jego nienaruszalności, podejście do aborcji, eutanazji, inżynierii genetycznej, a nawet do niepełnosprawności. Z faktu stworzenia człowieka na obraz Boży i współudziału człowieka w stwórczym dziele Boga wynika dalej obowiązek dbałości o zachowanie stworzenia oraz o sprawiedliwe urządzenie świata, a w nim ładu społecznego, politycznego i gospodarczego służącego każdemu człowiekowi. Drogą do przezwyciężenia różnic w interpretacji antropologii chrześcijańskiej – a co za tym idzie, określenia kwestii moralnych – są dialogi ekumeniczne, w których strony dążą do odkrywania prawdy. Dialog musi się dokonywać w obu wymiarach łącznie: wertykalnym (istota wiary) i horyzontalnym (kwestie społeczne i moralne). Jedność wiary warunkuje bowiem jedność w kwestiach moralnych. Aby dialog przyniósł owoce w postaci wzajemnego uznania, należy uniknąć błędów antropologicznych, zawartych we współczesnych prądach myślowych (m.in. materializmu, socjalizmu ateistycznego, redukcjonizmu genetycznego, utylitaryzmu i relatywizmu, a także fałszu ideologii gender). Receptą na to jest powrót do antropologii biblijnej oraz cierpliwe i pokorne szukanie prawdy.

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16

Pages

277-292

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Contributors

  • Wydział Teologii KUL

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