Catechesis – an Experience of the Mysterium Esse Personale
Catechesis – an Experience of the Mysterium Esse Personale

Summary/Abstract: The article is a personalist–hermeneutical study of the issue concerning the experience of the mysterium esse personale in catechesis. With the aid of the system of personalism and of personalist anthropology, a prosopological understanding of the person is presented, followed by an explanation of the value of experience, and specifically of the experience of esse personale, in catechesis. The first part presents a holistic, integral and realistic understanding of the person as an individual corporeal-spiritual subsistence, relational and community-forming. The second part explains the significance of experience, which faith renders a personal act and an interpersonal event based on the encounter with the Tri-Personal God through Christ and a permanent abiding with Him. The third part notes that catechesis is a process of union with the Person of Jesus Christ, which involves the entire human person and brings about the experience of the mystery of the Triune God and of the human person. The study employs a research method comprising elements such as content analysis in a personalist–hermeneutical approach, a comparative method enabling the comparison of analyses in the light of personalism, and synthesis consisting in the editing of the text of the analysed and synthesised research.

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