Antropologia teologiczna Piotra Semenenki

Abstract

The theological anthropology of Piotr Semenenko is based on one fundamental principle, the biblical idea of the image and likeness of God. In the construction of this idea the author employs trinitarian and chistological exemplarism. Man has been created in the image and after the likeness of God in order to be the partner of God’s love. The image and likeness of God is actualized in man first in ontological character, because by virtue of the act of creation all the structure of his existence, natural and supernatural, nature and person, show trinitarian and chistological likeness. Since the likeness refers to the supernatural plane and in its initial state is created by God, its growth and perfection is the moral duty of man. By co-operating with God, man, by the end of his days, attains to full and perfect likeness, which becomes fixed in eternal life, and which is the basis of the full and final union of man and God in love.