Teologia i antropologia: problem antropologii teologicznej

Abstract

Theological anthropology is a new, yet extremely dynamic, theological discipline. It is not limited to the treatise “about creation” (protology, pursued in classical theology), but poses a very broad task to speak about the whole man in the perspective of God. There is a belief that traditional theology spoke rather about the human “soul” and not about the “body”, or about the human person. An integral approach to man makes us see him or her also as a structure, history, action, as a dynamic creature, moral and personal. We do not mean only the individual dimension, but also the social one. Therefore theological anthropology is based on a positive reference both to philosophy and the natural sciences. It has two main directions of research: supernatural and natural. Therefore it takes man in the perspective of the Divine grace, and in the perspective of contemporary existence. Hence it is crucial to use in theological anthropology the so-called “methodological procedures”, i.e. the categories of apophatism – direct inadequacy and the category of analogy.