Not Imposing but Proposing
Not Imposing but Proposing

Summary/Abstract: The author claims that faith cannot be conveyed by the power of authority. Even the most sacred truth cannot be imposed on a human; a human has been given a demanding gift of freedom by God. Only a testimony of Christian life is the right way of transferring the faith. The first Proclaimer of Good News is the Holy Spirit; no Christian should take His place. The author opposes the idea that in the secularized Europe Christian faith could be restored by virtue of authority and an act of law. A human himself is the source of renewal. The natural but hidden in a human reference to God is systematically and discretely transferred. This conviction allows us to live in hope that even in the religiously indifferent environment God’s element is permanently active. Nonetheless, every believer is called to give faith testimony in everyday life. In the Declaration Dignitatis Humanae Vatican Council II says: “It is one of the major tenets of Catholic doctrine that man’s response to God in faith must be free: no one therefore is to be forced to embrace the Christian faith against his own will. This doctrine is contained in the word of God and it was constantly proclaimed by the Fathers of the Church” (10).

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