Stworzenie jako creatura Verbi. Wątek protologiczny adhortacji Verbum Domini Benedykta XVI

Abstract

The Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini is a significant, interesting document that deals with various issues. One is the bond between the Creator’s Word and the creation itself. In reference to New Testament and Patristic theology, Pope Benedict XVI shows us a theological and Christological reinterpretation of the work of creation. Everything (the creation, the new creation and the history of redemption/revelation) came into existence in the Eternal Word, through Him and for Him. Thanks to the traces of presence of the Word, the creation is logical (rational), good, beautiful, desired and loved. Its crowning achievement is the human being as a person. The Word became incarnated to renew everything and to carry in Himself the entire creation to God. The man who is illuminated by the Word actively participates in the work of creation. He can comprehend himself and achieve fulfillment only as a listener of the Word, created in the Word and renewed by the Word. The following words from the homily inaugurating his pontificate express what is essential in the theology of Benedict XVI: “If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide” (VD, 104).