Alienation to the Fundamental Aspect of the Vocation : Particularities of the Theological-Moral Distinction in the View of the Church-Magisterium in the Last Decades Cover Image

Odcudzenie základnému aspektu povolania. Špecifiká teologicko-morálneho odlíšenia i v chápaní Magistéria Cirkvi ostatných desaťročí
Alienation to the Fundamental Aspect of the Vocation : Particularities of the Theological-Moral Distinction in the View of the Church-Magisterium in the Last Decades

Author(s): Ivan Kútny
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Philosophy of Religion, Biblical studies
Published by: Teologická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity
Keywords: vocation; homo religiosus; alienation; theological dimension; experience;

Summary/Abstract: In this contribution the author, defining the treating scope, points out the call for meeting in personal experience with God who, in Christ, showed us not only his Face, but also opened up his Heart. This experience dimension can be thus for man not only the information but also the performance impulse. Consequently, he gives room to one of the most fundamental aspects of man’s vocation, i.e. to create intimate communion with God. Being however called to be a man, also with people, he specifies some alienation phenomena. Moreover, in the interactivity with them he mentions inadequate attitude towards love for one’s mother tongue and for one’s country. Then he justifies the significance of alienation consequences to the basic aspect of vocation also through the spiritual principle of solidarity expressed by the law of rise and the law of decline, in the interactivity between edification or degradation of common good in the aspect of moral good. In his conclusion he presents in an interrogative way the following: Will Christ, as the first-born and the head of the Church, who, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, established new brotherhood of all those who accept Him by faith and love, find the faith in himself at the second moment of his coming to the Earth?

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-120
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovak