TIKĖJIMO LIUDIJIMAS KAIP AUTENTIŠKA MOTYVACIJA
THE WITNESSING OF FAITH AS AN AUTHENTIC MOTIVATION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to inquire the witnessing of the faith as an event, on its special aspect of personal motivation. So, witnessing not according its main point of the form of Revelation, that is already profoundly and widely studied, but rather on its actual side of „accepting“ the faith from the side of the human person. Firstly is noted the aspect of the creative intensity of immanence - transcendence as the basis of each witnessing. Then the attention is focussed to the continuity of witnessing on both its aspects, personal and communitarian. Consequently, the article proposes some main features for a fruitful witnessing of faith in today’s context. And last but not least, some ideas are suggested and analyzed from the contemporary spiritual treasures (H. U. Von Balthasar), to encourage our Journey of Faith for the future. In this article first of all is noted the relation of faith with the possibilities of cultural background and the universal experience of the Faith in the Catholic Tradition. The witnessing relates and mediates between the Tradition and the personal Desire. So, witnessing is a good medium for creative interaction between the Christian tradition as a living reality, that is renovated with the action of using its treasures, and the desire, that grows through the act of spiritual seeking. It is important a courageous renewal of the faith in the context of today’s society. One of the most significant example (at the beginning of the modern period) is st. Ignace of Lojola. The creative intensity between the immanence and the transcendence is the excellent possibility for a fruitful witnessing of the presence of God in the world and in the human reality. In fact, the equilibrium between universal and concrete, the highest liberty and patience to obey the laws of human existence (in all its contexts, psycological, social or cultural, ecc.), the appreciation of humanity in all its manifestations and the insuperable sense of the absolute was always constantly seeked by st. Ignace, and he succeeded in finding unity between these immanent - transcendent poles. That’s why everything in the road of faith is marked by dynamism.

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