Published: 2016-06-30

The Passion of Christian Life. Benedict XVI – The Theological Trail

Jerzy Szymik

Abstract

Through its ambiguity, the term ‘passion’ clearly shows the relationship between love and suffering, desire and sacrifice, life and death, so characteristic not only for Christian faith but also anthropology and philosophy. Universalism of Christianity, its modus vivendi, described as early as in the New Testament, and then by the Church Fathers, as the ‘way’, is a contravention of the exclusivity of cognitive ways of ancient philosophy and gnosis. The truth turns out to be accessible not only through enlightenment of the chosen ones but through a free choice – a consent to passion. It shows its uniqueness and royalty. A Christian is invited to co-participate in the passion of life through co-participation in the Passion of Christ, the King, in His suffering and death, since these two are God’s participation in the passion of humanity. J. Ratzinger/Benedict XVI convinces that cognition, passion, freedom – the greatest existential issues of a man – are accessible only in humble consent to such suffering. It makes them happen in real life and constitutes a guarantee of their reality (truth).

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Szymik, J. (2016). The Passion of Christian Life. Benedict XVI – The Theological Trail. Silesian Historical and Theological Studies, 49(1), 11–25. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSHT.2016.49.1.02

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Vol. 49 No. 1 (2016)
Published: 2016-06-30


ISSN: 0137-3447
eISSN: 2956-6185

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Instytut Gość Media/Księgarnia św. Jacka

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