The Loss of the Sense of Sin and the Arrogance of Life: Challenges for Today’s Evangelization

• Authors: Krzysztof Nykiel

Title variants

PL

Utrata poczucia grzechu i arogancja życia. Dzisiejsze wyzwania dla ewangelizacji

Abstracts

PL

Na początku 2014 roku, podczas jednej z porannych medytacji, papież Franciszek, nawiązując do znanej wypowiedzi Piusa XII, stwierdził, że utrata poczucia grzechu jest złem tej cywilizacji, złem, które umacnia chrześcijańską przeciętność i jest odwrotnie proporcjonalne do uwagi i budowania Królestwa Bożego wśród ludzi. Kategorie poczucia grzechu i poczucia winy, przynajmniej teoretycznie i bez uogólnień, mogą być zrozumiałe w ramach doświadczenia chrześcijańskiego i sumienia kościelnego, ale gdy rozszerzy się horyzont ludzki, te dwa pojęcia nie znajdują racji bytu, ponieważ kwestia tak naprawdę nie pojawia się w rzeczywistości. Dzieci i twórcy współczesnej kultury, mężczyźni i kobiety naszych czasów, choć ukierunkowani na Królestwo Boże, są silnie dotknięci mentalnością zeświecczoną, globalistyczną i pluralistyczną, która negatywnie wpływa na ich postawy, zachowania i ekspresje egzystencjalne. Kościół, zarówno ad intra, jak i ad extra, staje przed problemem, jak przemienić przejawy tej nowej antropologii na wartości ewangeliczne; problem polega nie tyle na tym, jak przywrócić poczucie winy i grzechu, ile na tym, jak przywrócić lub wzbudzić wiarę w sercach ludzi. Skuteczna ewangelizacja ma na celu przywrócenie Ewangelii w sercach ludzi i wychowanie ich w sensie Boga, tak aby współcześni ludzie mieli wyższy paradygmat (Jezusa), z którego mogliby czerpać inspirację.     

EN

At the beginning of 2014, during his morning meditations, Pope Francis, when referring to a famous phrase by Pius XII, stated that losing the sense of sin is the evil of this civilisation, an evil that strengthens Christian mediocrity and is inversely proportional to directing attention towards – and constructing – the Kingdom of God among men. The categories of sense of sin and sense of guilt, at least in theory and without generalisations, become understandable in the context of the Christian experience and the ecclesial consciousness; yet, when the human horizon is extended, the two concepts do not find a right to citizenship because the question is not even raised. The children and creators of contemporary culture, the men and women of our time, although directed towards the Kingdom of God, are strongly influenced by the global and plural secularist mentality, and this has a negative impact on their attitudes, behaviour and expressions of their existence. The Church, both within herself and outside herself, poses to herself the question of how she can redirect the expressions of this unprecedented anthropology towards Gospel values. The problem is not so much how to bring to the surface the sense of guilt and sin but, rather, how to restore or generate faith in the hearts of men. Effective evangelisation has the task of bringing back the Gospel into men’s hearts and educating in a sense of God so that contemporary man can have a higher paradigm (God) on which to base himself.

Keywords

EN

Anti-culture; arrogance; sense of guilt; culture; evangelisation; globalisation; sense of sin; pluralism; secularisation; secularism; tenderness; witness; shame

PL

antykultura; arogancja; poczucie winy; kultura; ewangelizacja; globalizacja; poczucie grzechu; pluralizm; sekularyzm; czułość; świadectwo; wstyd

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Teologiczne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-83

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Nykiel

• Pontifical Gregorian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000162364131

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rt2023.4

Biblioteka Nauki

55994820