Teologiczne rozumienie zbawienia i jego znaczenie w życiu Kościoła

• Authors: Grzegorz Barth

Title variants

EN

Theological Understanding of Salvation and its Significance in the Life of the Church

Abstracts

EN

All attempts at describing the mystery of salvation are only partial. The idea of salvation, although it is considered a little archaic today, deserves being examined closely again as one of the concepts that belong to absolutely key ones. It appears as a “structure of our construction and of our future”, so it refers to the essence of man and is sort of “prophecy of his existence”. Theology of salvation appears to every man as a promise – or a suggestion – that a man is not alone and that he builds himself, exceeding himself and accepting the fact that God is different. Salvation is always visible where a certain “possibility”, a potentiality emerges in front of a human person; that is, where a being is not completed and has a perspective of being positively different. Salvation is where there is a meaning. Who utters the word “salvation”, says that nothing in his life of in the history of the world is subject to fatalism, nothing is inexcusable, impossible to mend, incurable. This truth testifies that although God has not liberated us from evil yet, He has liberated us from the tyranny of evil. Christ’s salvation shows – and here it is exceptional again – what reality should be like for us and by us, and what it will be like through God’s faithfulness to His promises and through faithfulness of our response.

Keywords

PL

Odkupienie; usprawiedliwienie; zbawienie; nowe stworzenie; zbawienie społeczne; zbawienie w Kościele; powszechność zbawienia; kenoza; miłość staurologiczna

EN

Redemption; justification; salvation; new creature; social salvation; salvation in the Church; universality of salvation; kenosis; staurological love

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Teologii Dogmatycznej
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 61-80

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Barth

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II w Lublinie

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

31233910