Trójca Święta – prawzór dialogu edukacyjnego w Kościele

Abstract

The Mysterium of the Church has its source and archetype in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. Furthermore, the Holy Trinity is the most significant source of the Church’s commonality. Thus also dialogue, as a fundamental element constituting any community, has its source in the internal life mystery of the Holy Trinity revealed in the Scriptures and studied by theologians. The article, which considers the Holy Trinity as the archetype of educational dialogue in the Church, begins with an attempt to understand the triune God’s essence – God as a Communion of Persons. This is followed by a presentation of an idea by the theologian Markus Knapp, who raises the issue of possible application of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action as an intellectual model for demonstrating the Trinitarian conception of God. The final section discusses inspiring consequences for social order and for the implementation of both educational dialogue within the Church itself and of social dialogue in a broad sense of the term; consequences that stem from the Trinitarian conception of God.