God's sanctity, human frailty and the shape of Christian vocation

Brugarolas, Miguel (author)

The lives of the saints are a true ‚hagiophany‘. Through them »God vividly manifests His presence and His face to men« (LG 50). This paper deals with the relation between God and the human being as it is manifested in the notion of sanctity. It first stresses divine filiation as the right frame (by contrast with anthropocentric perspectives) to understand this relation and then reflects on the Christological character of holiness and martyrdom. From this perspective, the relation of the human being with God comes out with interesting nuances and reveals the close unity of ethos, worship and history that it involves. The saint bears in his ontological constitution the forma Christi.

• Language: English
• Keywords: God, holiness, sanctity, martyrdom
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 551-564
• Numbering: Letn. 80, [št.] 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163665
• UDC: 27-36
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2020/03/Brugarolas
• COBISS.SI-ID: 44680707
• Publication date in RUL: 10.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Božja svetost, človeška krhkost in oblika krščanske poklicanosti

Abstract

Življenja svetnikov so resnična hagiofanija. Po svetnikih »Bog ljudem na živ način razodeva svojo navzočnost in svoje obličje« (LG, tč. 50). Članek je posvečen razmerju med Bogom in človekom, kakor se kaže skozi pojmovanje svetništva. V prvi vrsti poudarja Božje sinovstvo kot ustrezen okvir (za razliko od antropocentričnih pogledov), ki omogoča razumevanje omenjenega razmerja, nato pa ponuja razmislek o kristološkem značaju svetosti in mučeništva. V skladu s takšnim pogledom se človekov odnos do Boga kaže kot poln zanimivih odtenkov in razkriva neločljivo povezanost med etosom, čaščenjem in zgodovino, ki jo vključuje. Svetnik v svojem ontološkem temelju prinaša ‚Kristusov značaj ali obliko‘ (forma Christi).

• Keywords: Bog, svetost, svetništvo, mučeništvo