Chrystus Romano Guardiniego: osoba i czyn

Abstract

The paper presents integral approach to Christology in the works of Romano Guardini – German theologian of Italian descent. Guardini perceives in the Work and the Person of Jesus Christ the essence of Christianity, making of Him universal and fundamental category for interpreting the world and man in the world. At the same time he gives theological reasons and shows precisely that Jesus Christ in His God-man being as well as through His historically redemptive effect is universale concretum of God-man unity, who encourages man to have personal relation with Him. Romano Guardini in the Person and the Work of Jesus Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life shows the existential depth of the God-man life of Christ, which exerts real influence on the life of man, and which is guaranty of the unity of the God-man life. Thus it gives an answer to existential doubts and questions asked by man. Guardini presents Jesus Christ, universale concretum, in the perspective of the Way as the world's existence, the Truth as the fullness of Christian revelation, and the Life as the new way to exist for man and the world. Christ – the Way, the Truth and the Life becomes the foundation of man's Love, Faith and Hope, which through Revelation and Redemption lead him to Salvation. The redeeming Way of God's Love to man and man's Love to God in Jesus Christ, as well as the Truth about God's and man's coexistence in Him, through faith introduce into man's life deep Hope for Salvation going beyond death. In this project Jesus Christ, universale concretum, only He but He for everyone, is the way of expiating love, the revealed truth of faith, and the hope of reedemed life. That is what appears to be the essential foundation of theologically profound, existentially and humanistically oriented, incarnating and paschal Christology pursued by Guardini.