Sens wiary religijnej w świetle realizmu filozoficznego
The Sense Of Religious Faith In The Light Of Philosophical Realism

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at answering to the question about a status of religious faith in the development of human person. The undertaken purpose is realized within three stages that consist of analyzing (1) the “supernatural” knowledge of God, (2) the epistemo-logical basis of loving God, (3) the specificity of human perfection. Given considera-tions are based mainly on analyzing selected works written by representatives of phi-losophical realism (St. Thomas Aquinas, Zofia J. Zdybicka, Mieczyslaw A. Krapiec). A choice of texts is marked by their common personalist character resulting from their determined respect to the integral vision of man as person. The author claims that the fact of religious faith introduces every human person into a process of spiritual perfec-tion which consists not only in strengthening the cognition and love of God, but in progressing to sainthood as well. The key conclusion is that only the unity with God by love provides man with the complete actualization of his nature where in virtue of epis-temological conditions the act of religious faith plays a principal role.

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