Placing Joseph Ratzinger within the “Synthetic” Tradition of the Theological Anthropology of the Heart

• Authors: Peter John McGregor

Title variants

PL

Nauczanie Josepha Ratzingera na tle „syntetycznej” tradycji teologicznej antropologii serca

Abstracts

PL

Niniejszy artykuł rozpoczyna chronologiczne przedstawienie dwóch głównych tradycji rozumienia serca: tradycji analitycznej, która traktuje serce jako szczególną zdolność osoby ludzkiej, oraz tradycji syntetycznej, która uznaje, że serce tę szczególną zdolność przekracza. W kolejnych częściach artykułu autor dokonuje przeglądu współczesnych badań teologicznej antropologii serca oraz analizuje teologiczną antropologię serca Josepha Ratzingera, zaprezentowaną w jego komentarzu do Gaudium et spes, w jego ocenie patrystycznego rozumienia serca oraz w jego książkach Jezus z Nazaretu i Matka Boga. Maryja w wierze Kościoła. Następnie autor bada Ratzingerowską symboliczną teologię serca Boga Ojca oraz sposób, w jaki zarówno ludzkie serce, jak i serce Ojca objawiają się w sercu Jezusa. Artykuł kończą refleksje na temat sposobu, w jaki syntetyczna teologiczna antropologia serca może pomóc w uzdrowieniu współczesnej antropologicznej dezintegracji.

EN

This article begins with a chronological outline of the two main “traditions” of understanding the heart: the “analytic” tradition which treats the heart as a particular faculty of the human person, and the “synthetic” tradition which treats it as in some way transcending a particular faculty. Then, it looks at the contemporary search for a theological anthropology of the heart. Following this, it examines Joseph Ratzinger’s theological anthropology of the heart. More specifically, it looks at this understanding as found in his commentary on Gaudium et Spes, his assessment of the patristic understanding of the heart, and as revealed in his Jesus of Nazareth and Mary: The Church at the Source. Then, it investigates his symbolic theology of the Father’s heart, followed by how both the human heart and the Father’s heart are revealed in the heart of Jesus. It concludes with a few thoughts on how a synthetic theological anthropology of the heart might assist us in healing our contemporary anthropological disintegration.

Keywords

PL

Joseph Ratzinger; Benedykt XVI; antropologia teologiczna; serce; teologia symboliczna; Orygenes; Augustyn; Pascal; John Henry Newman; Romano Guardini

EN

Joseph Ratzinger; Benedict XVI; theological anthropology; heart; symbolic theology; Origen; Augustine; Pascal; John Henry Newman; Romano Guardini

• Publisher: Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 179-217

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Peter John McGregor

• Catholic Institute of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame, Australia

• https://orcid.org/0000000218110043

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34839/wpt.2023.31.2.179-217

Biblioteka Nauki

31343727