Personalistyczny charakter prawdy a doświadczenie chrześcijańskie

Abstract

The main problem of this paper is the relationship between the truth and Christian experience as presented in the recent Vatican document Dominus Iesus. The first step toward establishing the relationship searched for is Saint Paul’s formula – according to the words of Cardinal Ratzinger it is the key formula for the whole document – „nobody can say »Jesus is the Lord« without help of the Holy Spirit” The conclusion of these words is simple and powerful in the same time: every orthopraxis is based on a certain form of orthodoxy. Some thoughts taken from the first Vatican Council, even if more than a hundred years old, appeared here very fruitful as they linked such notions as „illumination” and „inspiration” with „sweetness” of accepting faith truths. The controversy of how Christianity is to react in meeting with other religions, so fiercely spoken about after the release of the Vatican document, is finely solved when the „truth” that Dominus Iesus is so eager to defend manifests itself to be no less that the very person of Jesus Christ. In His person the dogmatic truth encounters the spiritual experience in full harmony.