„Zesłał Syna swego w ciele” (Rz 8, 3). Ku integralnemu rozumieniu Wcielenia

Abstract

The mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God constitutes an irreducible foundation of Christianity. As such, it calls for reflection, interpretation, and advancement – in each of the succeeding generations of Jesus’ disciples. Now in late modernity it is especially important to rethink the realism of the Incarnation, a truth questioned by neognosis. In this context the socalled integrity of understanding and defining the Incarnation is also crucial. We mean mainly the ‟process-like” character of the Incarnation, embracing the whole life of Jesus on earth, and not only its ‟point-like” character (the Conception itself, or Birth). Among the important elements of integrity one finds also the ‟pro-Paschal” understanding of the Incarnation. Thus understood and professed the Incarnation of God may well be a central category of contemporary Christology, with its whole wealth of tradition and open at the same time to the present times.