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Sakramenty wtajemniczenia chrześcijańskiego jako egzystencjalny przełom w życiu człowieka
The Sacraments of Christian Initiation as an Existential Breakthrough in the Human Life

Author(s): Andrzej K. Jastrzębski
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: human person; existential emptiness; baptism; sacraments; deification

Summary/Abstract: In the Christian life the baptism is a possible breakthrough because it introduces the human person in a radically new reality. Although the gifts of God are irrevocable, the human person is invited to cooperate with God’s grace in becoming holy. The life of Christians today it is not always a visible testimony of the grace of baptism and obligations arising from it. The human person, if based solely on his or hers own merits and pursuing only own ideas, many times betrays the grace of baptism. This is precisely the existential situation of the human person of today. In this article, we aim to analyze the existential situation of modernity and to present a vision of a radical transformation, which can be experienced, when the human person receives fully the spiritual gifts through the sacraments of Christian initiation.

  • Issue Year: 62/2015
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 69-82
  • Page Count: 14