Published: 2020-06-29

Mercy: the heart of the faith and the mission of the Church based on the selected examples of the teaching of Pope John Paul II

Agnieszka Dudek-Kowalska

Abstract

The purpose of the presented article is the synthesis combined with the analysis of these examples of teaching of Pope John Paul II that show the issue of mercy as the heart of faith and mission of the Church. Its aim is to present the topicality of the requirement of the Pope to make proclamation and practice of mercy the mission of the Church and – as a further consequence – the base of human relationships. In the first two parts of the article the author elaborates the faith and the testimony of the Church and within this part analyzes mercy as the subject of the experience and the message of the Church and elaborates the form of the testimony. Within the part dedicated to calling for mercy the author shows first the needs and problems of the contemporary world and then presents mercy as the basic answer for them. The author refers finally to the problem of the constant effort of conversion as the manifestation of mercy and the guarantor of the realization of the requirements of mercy. The presented analysis leads to the conclusion that the topic of mercy in the teaching of Pope John Paul II constitutes the constant and current reference and it should be realized by the faith and practice of mercy in the life and the mission of the Church.

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Dudek-Kowalska, A. (2020). Mercy: the heart of the faith and the mission of the Church based on the selected examples of the teaching of Pope John Paul II. Silesian Historical and Theological Studies, 52(2), 322–338. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSHT.2019.52.2.07

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SSHT 52/2

Vol. 52 No. 2 (2019)
Published: 2020-09-29


ISSN: 0137-3447
eISSN: 2956-6185

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Instytut Gość Media/Księgarnia św. Jacka

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