Not Imposing but Proposing

• Authors: Madziar Władysław

Title variants

PL

Nie narzucać, lecz proponować

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author claims that faith cannot be conveyed by the power of authority. Even the most sacred truth cannot be imposed on a human; a human has been given a demanding gift of freedom by God. Only a testimony of Christian life is the right way of transferring the faith. The first Proclaimer of Good News is the Holy Spirit; no Christian should take His place. The author opposes the idea that in the secularized Europe Christian faith could be restored by virtue of authority and an act of law. A human himself is the source of renewal. The natural but hidden in a human reference to God is systematically and discretely transferred. This conviction allows us to live in hope that even in the religiously indifferent environment God’s element is permanently active. Nonetheless, every believer is called to give faith testimony in everyday life. In the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae Vatican Council II says: “It is one of the major tenets of Catholic doctrine that man’s response to God in faith must be free: no one therefore is to be forced to embrace the Christian faith against his own will. This doctrine is contained in the word of God and it was constantly proclaimed by the Fathers of the Church” (10).

PL

Autor głosi tezę, że wiary nie można przekazać mocą autorytetu. Nawet najświętsza prawda nie może zostać człowiekowi narzucona; człowiek otrzymał od Boga wymagający dar wolności. Właściwe przekazywanie wiary dokonuje się poprzez świadectwo życia chrześcijańskiego. Pierwszym głosicielem Dobrej Nowiny jest Duch Święty; chrześcijanin nie powinien próbować zajmować Jego miejsca. Autor sprzeciwia się idei, jakoby w zlaicyzowanej Europie można przywrócić wiarę chrześcijańską na mocy autorytetu i ustaw. Źródłem odnowy jest sam człowiek. Ukryte w człowieku naturalne odniesienie do Boga jest systematycznie, dyskretnie okazywane. Przeświadczenie to pozwala nam żyć w nadziei, że nawet w środowisku religijnie obojętnym pierwiastek boży jest permanentnie aktywny. Natomiast każdy wierzący jest wezwany do dawania świadectwa wiary w codziennym życiu. Sobór Watykański II wyraził to słowami deklaracji Dignitatis humanae: „Jednym z zasadniczych punktów nauki katolickiej, zawartym w słowie Bożym i nieustannie głoszonym przez Ojców, jest zdanie, że człowiek powinien dobrowolnie odpowiedzieć Bogu wiarą; nikogo więc wbrew jego woli nie wolno do przyjęcia wiary przymuszać” (10).

Keywords

EN

Church; Divine Word Missionaries (SVD); religious despotism; proposition of faith; evangelization; Christian mission; Pope Francis

PL

Kościół; Zgromadzenie Słowa Bożego (SVD); religijny despotyzm; propozycja wiary; ewangelizacja; misja chrześcijańska; papież Franciszek

• Publisher: Verbinum / Wydawnictwo Księży Werbistów
• Journal: Nurt SVD
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 188-203

Dates

published

2020-06-30

Contributors

author

Madziar Władysław

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Identifiers

ISSN

1233-9717