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Biblické aspekty ľudskej zrelosti
Biblical Aspects of Human Maturity

Author(s): Ján Ďurica
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical studies
Published by: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity
Keywords: human being; soul; heart; body, spirit (mind); maturity; holiness; perfection; virtue; vice; Decalogue; conscience;

Summary/Abstract: Human being inside of his human development is called to get adulthood and real maturity. The first instructions regarding this growth we can find in the revealed Word of God in the Bible. The Bible expresses the notion of maturity by the concepts of perfection and holiness. Therefore we reflect first about human being in the spirit of the biblical anthropology by the way of synthetic understanding: soul, heart, corporality, body, spirit (mind). Thereafter we elaborate the question of the place of human being in the history of salvation. After that is following the idea treating the propose of free choice in order to make election regarding achieving human maturity, the neglecting of which means the degradation of human dignity. This issue is presented by the notion of vice. At the end we present the question of conscience as an inner voice and instrument for discernment between the good and the evil. Thus the human being perceived in the spirit of Decalogue and helped by the grace of God can be seen in all his age stages and in all forms of his involvements as having an open way to get full human maturity, because being created according God’s image and resemblance.

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-55
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak