Pontifícia Universidade Católica Do Rio Grande Do Sul Faculdade De Teologia Programa De Pós-graduação Em Teologia Mestrado Em Teologia

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Author	Boardman, Alex Graminho Ecclesiam, Extra Salus, Nulla Histórico, Percurso Atualidade, E. Axioma, Do Igreja, Sua Cristo, Jesus
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The Christian theological anthropology presents the premise that the human being only becomes fully fulfilled if relational. Created as the image and similarity of God, man only reaches his true one and maximum happiness when he answers faithfully to his original call, in an opening to all the dimensions that constitute him as a person. In summary, the human being only “exists” if relational. In man’s way, however, there is the sin, as a reality that makes him live such dimensions in an inadequate way, and in which he refuses, from selfishness and the urge to have things done immediately, the total opening to his relationships. The sin, therefore, renders the human being inhuman, making him less than that one he is called to be. In the root of this denial, there are positions that divide or separate the essence of man, as the dualism and its unilateralisms. A person, in his immanence, is independent, but he cannot do without his transcendence, that is inherent to him. A person only manages to fulfill himself when he transcends himself in the relationship with God, with another person and with the world. As long as the human being closes himself to any of his relationships, he walks in the opposite way of his self-transformation, becoming less human, because it is in his relational being, also, that he understands himself as a person. The individualism, which recent origin retraces to modernity and to antropocentrism, is the main way to deny the relational being. And, nowadays, called by the French philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky as the hypermodern times, the individualism is lived to its extremity, under the “rules” of the market and the neoliberalism, as well as under the always bigger influence of the tecno-scientific reason – of the new technologies. That’s why the current period is called hypermodernity, indicating the exacerbation of modernity. But it is exactly in this context of narcissistic hyperindividualism that today’s man is disoriented, running behind a paradoxical happiness and reaching, most of the times, his own disillusionment. This is where the Christian faith points out that only in an integrated perspective of his personality, inclusively of all its constitutive dimensions, the human being can reach his full existencial accomplishment. And the personal reply to the fullness of man is found in Jesus Christ. Here it is what Gaudium et Spes teaches: only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light; Christ fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear; and in Him all the aforementioned truths find their root and attain their crown. Jesus Christ invites the human being for a truly worthy and happy life. In each one of the essential relationships of the human being – with God, with another person, with the world and with himself –, Jesus Christ shows the way of the authentic humanity, which is not opposed to God and to all the creatures, but is exactly moved toward to them. It is in Jesus Christ that the extreme freedom and human possibilities fulfill themselves.
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