Teológia kríža. Interpretácia duchovnej cesty človeka v literárnom a mysliteľskom diele Pavla Straussa
Theology of the Cross. Interpretation of Man’s Spiritual Path in the Work and Thought of Paul Strauss

Summary/Abstract: The image of journey applied to human life is multidimensional. History gives to the concept of journey in its existential dimension multiple meanings. The life path of an individual is a way inwards, towards God, way of conversion, journey of faith (L. Coco). The life path of a Slovak writer and spiritual author Pavol Strauss (1912-1994) is a journey full of twists (J. Leikert), it is a way of the cross – via crucis. The experience of suffering somehow automatically passes into his work, where the topics of pain, cross, suffering and death are central. The paradox is that the man, who went through a conversion and grew in faith, does not put the theme of suffering at the end of his refl ections – as we might expect from a convert. The acceptance of suffering is generally the sign of a mature faith (A. Dulles). The spiritual journey of Strauss’ faith is a journey that springs from suffering and is the very motive of conversion. The study focuses on key texts of P. Strauss, of which the main topic is suffering and where we can see that the interior journey does not have to lead from rejection (or disinterested perception) of suffering to its acceptance, but from the primary acceptance to its deeper understanding. Texts of Pavol Strauss unveil to us the width, the depth, the height and the length of this mystery. In this way he opens up to us a new meaning of the image of journey.

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