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Nurt SVD
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2021
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issue 2
224-239
PL
Współcześnie obserwuje się narastanie zjawiska nihilizmu. Towarzyszy temu poczucie pustki i bezsensu życia. Teologia katolicka, ukazując nadzieję jako cnotę nadprzyrodzoną, przedstawia ją w szerokiej perspektywie eschatologicznej. Nadzieja nadprzyrodzona chroni osobę przed absolutyzowaniem istniejących w życiu trudności. Tym samym budzi odwagę do życia, broni przed zwątpieniem i rezygnacją, wskazuje na perspektywę paschalną. Chrześcijańska nadzieja – źródło teologicznego optymizmu – przekracza argumentację historyczno-polityczną, która może prowadzić do pesymizmu, nihilizmu czy katastrofizmu. Ukazuje nie tylko wizję trwania świata, ale także jego spełnienia. Człowiek wiary wierzy w absolutną przyszłość ludzkości w Królestwie Bożym i dostrzega w aktualnej historii świata plan rozwoju aż do paruzji – całkowitego odnowienia. Nadzieja chrześcijańska rodzi inicjatywy na rzecz dobra i integralnego rozwoju człowieka.
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Nowadays the phenomenon of defeatism and nihilism is increasing. It is accompanied by a feeling of emptiness and nonsense of life. Catholic theology, presenting hope as a supernatural virtue, presents it from a broad eschatological perspective. Supernatural hope protects a person from making absolute the difficulties that exist in life. Thus, it inspires courage to live, defends against doubts and resignation, and points to the paschal perspective. Christian hope - the source of theological optimism - transcends historical and political argumentation that can lead to pessimism, defeatism, nihilism, and catastrophism. It shows not only the vision of how the world lasts but also its fulfilment. A man of faith believes in the absolute future of mankind in the Kingdom of God and sees in the current history of the world a plan of development up to Parousia - complete renewal. Christian hope gives rise to initiatives for the good and integral development of man.
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In this article I argue with Democritus and his heirs, that is to say, with a worldview that combines rationalism, ontological naturalism and mechanics. According to the latter conception, there is no metaphysical background of the world, no objective meaning, and therefore – in essence – "nothing is happening". This worldview, in the nineteenth century treated as "scientific", proved to be technologically fecund (through reductionism), but it destructively affected the sense of spiritual security associated with the sense of existence. It also contributed to the hypertrophy of the technological trunk in the culture and to the crisis of the mythological trunk (according to the distinction of Leszek Kołakowski). I also point out the important dividing line in modern European culture and philosophy: namely, the relatively coherent camp of supporters of naturalism and their vision of the world as a machine and, on the other side, the often conflicted and heterogeneous camp of its opponents. The latter has received unexpected support from new physics and cosmology, departing from the mechanistic paradigm and opening up new perspectives on the metaphysical thought, seeking the objective meaning of existence.
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Diverse areas of studies are concerned with the answer to the inquiry on the meaning of human existence. Also theology, referring to the Divine Revelation, points out to the meaning of existence, revealed by God. Also Benedict XVI refers to this issue in his apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini – On the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church. Indicating the Eternal Word, that entered the time and was pronounced in human way, at the same time the Holy Father convinces us, that for the person receiving this Word in faith, it can be the source of the meaning of existence. The Divine Revelation becomes the source of the meaning of human life thanks to its rationality, through responses it provides for the deepest human inquiries and desires, and thanks to the perspective of fullness of life transcending the limits of temporality. The meaning of human existence revealed in the Word of God, is properly understood and most fully accessible in the Church. The community of God's people is called to reveal the Eternal Word faithfully as reality, which can be lived, and thanks to which one can live.
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