Konieczność a niemożność. Ciało Chrystusa ubogiego według Franciszka

Abstract

Pope Francis frequently refers to dramas of human life in his speeches. Disease, suffering and poverty are issues which move every man, especially Christians. In Pope Francis’s statements the expression ‘the Body of Christ’ appears very often. This expression should inspire to provide love to every fellow human being that we meet. This paper points to understanding this expression itself in the Holy Bible teaching and Church tradition, and then it shows opportunities of its application to systematic theology. Such theology must very carefully approach the interpretation of the ‘body’ expression, which already in Greek authors had varied but precise meaning.