Kwestionowanie wiary chrześcijańskiej dzisiaj

Abstract

The paper was written on the basis of a report read at the symposium whose subject matter was „Faith in the Contemporary Context” It is at the same time an attempt to show some principal forms and extent to which the Christian faith is being questioned in today’s world, an attempt to show basic directions, tendencies and behaviors of contemporary people. It is by these tendencies that Christian message has been questioned. This questioning is linked with the contemporary currents which come about in thinking and with the civilization changes. The author points to three basic aspects of the problem in question. First he discusses these currents and practical attitudes in which there comes to the most fundamental questioning of the need and possibility of there being faith (atheism, secularism, practical materialism, and consumership). Then he pinpoints a questioning of the very essence or particular aspects of the object of faith, presenting some distortions of a personalistic character of the Christian faith and various aspects of a phenomenon called „selective Christianity” Further he brings to our attention diverse forms of questioning the social character of the Christian faith. He pinpoints at the same time the danger of „privatized faith” All the above-mentioned kinds of questioning faith have their roots in sin. The author emphasizes then that every sin is some kind of questioning the Christian faith. Here he discusses the contemporary phenomenon of loosing a sense of sin together with loosing a sense of God’s presence in man’s life. The author does not confine himself to presenting only the negative aspects of the problems, but points out that there is a need for new witnesses of faith in the face of contemporary threats. These new witnesses of the Christian faith should always be ready for a dialogue.