The Contribution of the Dialogical and Trialogical Approach to Understanding the Human Person to the Communion Anthropology Cover Image

Wkład dialogicznego i trialogicznego pojmowania soby ludzkiej do antropologii komunijnej
The Contribution of the Dialogical and Trialogical Approach to Understanding the Human Person to the Communion Anthropology

Author(s): Marek Jagodziński
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: human person; relationship; communion; Trinity; communion anthropology; dialogical personalism; trialogic structure

Summary/Abstract: A chance of understanding a person thanks to the idea of the human person has appeared in the dialogue between the Christian message and philosophy. As a creation a man has become a dynamic image of God’s openness and relatedness, a huge and ever insatiable thirst for communion. The human person can be deified by grace and attain the fullness of communion with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Therefore trinitology, penetrating anthropology with the communion view, allows to show the final dimensions of the human being. The big insight in highlighting the relational and ecstatic nature of the human person has a dialogical personalism, that underlies the contemporary philosophy of dialogue. However, trialogic understanding of the human person shows that between “I” and “you” there is in an “in between” and people becomes their usual self in something “third”, what unites them. This “third element” has always something deeper at the root - a new personal relationship, and the essence of the interpersonal events which can be called communion, can be expressed only in the trialectic way. From the theological view it is needed to tell about Triune God, without whom a “trialogic life” and its reflections in the human world, the trialogic structure of the personal being and realization of trialogic and “trinitarian” communio would not be possible.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-126
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish