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Znaczenie osoby w teologii
The Meaning of a Person in Theology

Author(s): Czesław S. Bartnik
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: person; person sphere; soul; social person; personalism; osoba; sfery osoby; dusza; osoba społeczna; personalizm

Summary/Abstract: Philosophy and theology were generally of a rhetorical character (the object is treated as a thing), even personal beings like man, God - are treated as objects, which is supposed to convey the objectivity of the approach. The author of the article changes this approach by leaving the category of a person and taking everything in the aspect of personalism as a system. In the current general understanding, a person in the concept of Boethius rather means man as a rational nature. Personalism assumes that a person is a subsistence in the way of someone in relation to the whole reality or a subsistent substance subsisting with a unique self or subsisting as someone in the nature of being. Philosophy and theology as systems come not from philosophical principles, but from the fact of a person as a central reality. The person is the highest kind of being, beyond which there is no higher, that is why God without a person would be infinitely lower than man. And every element of reality becomes understandable in the relationship between the human person and the divine person.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish