Innovative Pastoral Ways of Announcing the Trinitarian Mystery to Contemporary Man Cover Image

Inovatívne pastoračné spôsoby ohlasovania trinitárneho tajomstva súčasnému človeku
Innovative Pastoral Ways of Announcing the Trinitarian Mystery to Contemporary Man

Author(s): Patrik Maturkanič
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Systematic Theology, Pastoral Theology, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Trinitarian Personalism; God; Man; Christian Identity; Practical Theology;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the legacy of the ecclesiastical community preserved in the ecclesial memory (tradition) intended for all times, and therefore also for the “challenges of today” inscribed in the particular “signs of the times”. Without a doubt, this includes the desire of western man for a content, happy, and fulfilled life in all aspects of human life. The main aim of the article is to provide the most plausible answer about the meaning of man’s existence and the paths to its fulfilment not only to the believer living in a certain cultural framework, but also to everyone who asks this question. Our answer cannot help but emerge from the Trinitarian mystery, which was, still is and will always be the foundation of proclamation and of all new pastoral paths, even for the twenty-first century Church, world and man. After all, if it is true that the essence of the triune God is both universal union and unification, it is the trinitarian relational Being that establishes the foundations for a new humanity. The mystery of the divine Trinity is thus implicit in both chapters of the lecture, in which we speak of a new Christian identity, of the phenomena of “the silent God”, and ofthe mission of practical theology as a theology of life, that is to say, a theology that makes man’s encounter with God possible.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-113
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak
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