Model Kościoła według Jana Pawła II

Abstract

From John Paul II preaching emerges an outlook of an open, great Church that expands on both this world an the Eschaton. Analysing the papal statements one finds key – words of his ecclesiology; truth, great God’s deals and reciprocal worship. As the main task the Church has to prepare the world for the final coming of Christ. She fulfils it by actualising the great God’s deals that means by appeasing the deepest human hunger – the hunger of the truth. She takes responsibility for the world and the humankind so that the world would be not deprived of the truth. The specific role the Pope himself – as John Paul II points out – is to open the door o f the Church and strengthen the bonds between Christ and the his Mystical Body. All this could happen thanks to three steps of reciprocal prayer in which Christ intercedes for the Church, the ecclesial community for the Holy Father – its Pastor and the Pope for the Church. As compared with Avery Dulles’ six models of the Church, the above ecclesiological view has common characteristics with each of them, however the papal image of the Church is predominantly personalistic one. Whereas some contemporary theologians tend to present the near – future Church as small, exclusive and less rich in conversions then previously, John Paul II preaches her as great, vividly wide – spreading with the word of truth and strong because of ever inherent worship and life – giving link with the Holy Trinity.