Duch Święty jako dar w nauczaniu papieża Jana Pawła II

Abstract

The paper deals with the pneumatology of John Paul II as it is presented in the encyclical Dominum et vivificantem. Substantially, it is based on the biblical description of the Holy Ghost as a „Gift”. Methodologically, it has been worked out according to the spirit of a consequent personalism. Thus construed pneumatology reveals the Holy Ghost as a mutual Gift of the Father and the Son in which the immanent self-communication of God reaches its peak and is substantiated in the Divine Communion of Persons. He is at the same time an openness of this Divine fellowship, that is to say God's „Extasy”, in relation to the creation and „God's being outside”. Understanding the Holy Ghost as a Gift allows in turn to penetrate more profoundly into the economical order in which the immanent Trinity is expressed. At the economical level the Holy Ghost is first the Father's Gift for Jesus whose human nature He made the manhood of the Son of God through Incarnation, life in obedience, Resurrection and Adoration. Glorified Christ handed the Gift of the Spirit to the Church making her a universal sacrament of salvation. The Holy Ghost who is present and acts in the Church becomes a personal Gift for the person of man; in Him and through Him God gives himself personally to His creatures. The theology of the Holy Ghost as a Gift, as it is oulined by John Paul II, enriches not only the very pneumatology but also gives new broader perspectives for other branches of theology especially Trinitology, Christology, charytology and ecclesiology.