The article indicates the psychological assumptions and consequences of John Paul II’s teaching on the redemptive meaning of human suffering. Within the frame- work of the clerical ideal of self-overcoming possible psychological results of the pope’s concept are discussed, namely: fear, guilt, low self-esteem, self-hatred. The article is trying to show that John Paul II’s idea of redemptive human suffering makes a conversion to Christianity very difficult. It is suggested that it also tends to justify any unjust or violent situations in life of societies and individuals by seeing them as a positive will of God.
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