Motyw antropologiczny w encyklice Benedykta XVI Deus caritas est
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2008
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Wydział Teologiczny UAM
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The Anthropological Motive in the Encyclical Deus caritas est of Benedict XVI
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The subject of the article is the theological anthropology which is pointed in the first encyclical
„Deus caritas est” written by Pope Benedict XVI. In his encyclical the Holy Father focuses on
the most essential „reality” in the Church - Love. He wrote the encyclical as a classic apologetic
discourse. The pope dialogues with the non-christian thoughts - the ancient thought and the modem
thought (Frederic Nietzsche and Carol Marks). The pope speaks about Love. At the same time,
he presents the Christian image of man and man’s vocation. The newness and authentic of Christian
love is really connected with the Christian image of Triune God, God who is Love. The radical
newness of Christian understanding of God is the groundwork o f understanding the man and man’s
vocation. This is the man who lives in - important for his identity - relation to God and another
man. The man as „I” realizes in a community „we”. The man „in relation” is the image of God. In
the encyclical the vision of man is through theological, christological and trinitarian. It is the vision
of man who is called to live in a community (communion). And the vision realizes in the community
of Church called community of love.
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Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, theological anthropology, love-caritas
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Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne, T. 22, 2008, s. 151-162