Elementy personalizmu w konstytucji „Dei verbum”

Abstract

Gods care for human beings endures from the beginning of the world till its fulfilment in the last days. The aim of this article is to focus on the personalistic dimension of the conciliar Constitution Dei verbum. In our analysis of the text of the Constitution, we state that the history of salvation is indirectly connected with God who always makes His way to man, with God being constantly directed to the whole of mankind. God reveals Himself to man. It is achieved at the personalistic level as God personally refers to man. Divine revelation is a unique meeting between God and man. It has a supernatural and interpersonal dimension and forms a sound basis for God’s absolute love and goodness. God talks to us and at the same time He reveals to us who we are. Theology becomes anthropology. The response of an individual person to God’s revelation and love is faith. Both God, who reveals himself to man, and man who responds with faith and full confidence, provide the basis for this relationship. To believe means to open one’s mind and heart to divine revelation and accept it. The act of faith has its source in the whole spiritual dynamism of a human being. It is the moment of the fundamental choice that absorbs a man with his whole being. Faith is what gives the proper direction to a man’s conscious life and points to its ultimate aim. So it should become a source of inspiration for an activity oriented to the future. From the beginning it means a decision, a deed; it is also how a man behaves. Therefore it concerns faith that is deep, truly experienced and practiced as well as strongly reaffirmed and continually developed. As believers in God we tell about Him, get to know Him more and more, listen to His word and try to understand it, but due to it we also have a better understanding of ourselves. That is why anthropology is understood correctly in terms of theology.