Problematyka teologicznofundamentalna w encyklice „Fides et ratio” Jana Pawła II

Abstract

In the present article discussing theology of revelation and theology of faith, which have been presented in the form of the encyclical Fides et Ratio, is a continuation and synthesis of the official Catholic Church teaching on the vital issues necessary to understand Christianity. The latest achievements of the fundamental theology have been given though in Fides et Ratio. The encyclical greatly contributes to accomplishing the aim of the fundamental theology, that is, to give reasons for the credibility of Christian revelation, as it offers precise arguments (from the harmony of faith and reason, from the desire to get to know the truth, from the sensocreative function of Christianity, culturecreative argument, agapetological argument, from the Christian testimony and martyrdom). According to Fides et Ratio these are not reasons in a mathematical sense but motives which show reasonable basis for belif in the Christian revelation. They should be looked at as a whole because only then they have a far greater impact. The encyclical Fides et Ratio does not share the concern, which appears here and there, that a variety of arguments is their relativity. On the contrary, a meeting of fides and ratio enables us to notice a huge abundance of the final truth, which shows itself to man in many ways.