Nadprzyrodzony egzystencjał jako recepcja łaski w człowieku
Supernatural existential as reception of grace in man

Summary/Abstract: A term “supernatural existential” in theology has been introduced by Karl Rahner. It refers to a position of man before God prior to his justification thanks to received grace, in other words to the position as far as it is marked by the universal redemptive will of God. Man by the very fact of his creation has a certain deposit of God’s action and grace in him as he is created in the image of God. A free action of God towards a human being seems to be irreversible in its nature because God from the very beginning desires human salvation. The purpose of this paper is to show “supernatural existential” as reception of grace in a human being based on Karl Rahner’s theology. The term “supernatural existential” is not biblical but it was formed pursuant to the knowledge about universal redemptive will of God – terminus creatus conveniens. With its help Rahner is trying to explain what it practically means that Jesus Christ is the beginning of faith in man. Reception, i.e. reception of faith, grace, its precepts but always without any obligation and without special arguments, takes place only with full personal consent, because it is a free inner act of a human being. This consent which takes place in a human being has a volitional character. It is constant cooperation. It includes self-communication of God “Justified without one’s merit, man indeed becomes the temple of God, he is indwelled by the Holy Spirit as the most adequate and greatest gift”. Man is open to God, and the condition of this openness and self-communication of God is supernatural existential.

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