Nadzieja jako motor dziejów według Benedykta XVI (Josepha Ratzingera)
Hope as the Motor of History according to Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)

Summary/Abstract: J. Ratzinger/Benedykt XVI has tackled a very important, albeit seldom raised in Catholic theology, problem of hope as Christian reality. Hope is for him not only the habitus, as even for St Thomas Aquinas it is, but also a Christian's existential beingness: hypostasis. It is a real reference of a human person's being and life to the living God and to Jesus Christ. This relation already starts in his earthly life in the form of “embryo”, or “leaven”, but it transgresses the life and is fulfilled in its eternal life, leading all human history to the aim, and it gives it a personalistic character. It shows that history without this great hope is devoid of any meaning. Earthly everyday hopes are a vanity or they are meaningless compared with that great hope. However, in this last sentence – I think – also a certain value of earthly hopes should be appreciated.

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