Details

Authenticity and the task of discernment : a pastoral hermeneutics of Christian life
ID Ganc, Damijan (Author)

.pdfPDF - Presentation file, Download (212,57 KB)
MD5: 1CA25F50A7E830447328892D8E380E90
URLURL - Source URL, Visit https://journals.uni-lj.si/ED/article/view/28482 This link opens in a new window
URLURL - Source URL, Visit https://journals.uni-lj.si/ED/article/view/28482/21427 This link opens in a new window

Abstract
Authenticity has become a powerful language through which many late-modern persons speak about selfhood, integrity, trust, belonging, and the desire for faith to be lived truthfully. Pastoral theology therefore treats this language with caution: it is not reducible to expressive individualism, but neither can it be received as a Christian norm in itself. This article argues that authenticity is best understood as a pastoral signal requiring theological discernment. Drawing on interdisciplinary accounts, it first identifies recurring concerns: personal appropriation, coherence between word and life, relational credibility, vulnerability, and social recognition. It then reframes these concerns through biblical-theological motifs of truthfulness before God, Christological witness, discipleship, and accountable ecclesial communion. Christy Capper’s constructive account is engaged to clarify how authenticity may be ordered beyond the self within Christian theological anthropology. The article’s central contribution is to propose a pastoral hermeneutics of authenticity: a disciplined practice of listening, interpreting, discerning, and accompanying in situations of pastoral care, mistrust, self-questioning, institutional disappointment, and the search for personally appropriated faith. Authenticity thus has real, though limited, pastoral value. It may help the Church hear what is being expressed through contemporary appeals to authenticity, while the norm of Christian life remains truthful life received from God, revealed in Christ, and lived within ecclesial communion.

Language:English
Keywords:authenticity, pastoral theology, pastoral hermeneutics, late modernity, discernment, Christian anthropology
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:TEOF - Theological Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:15.07.2026
Year:2026
Number of pages:Str. 239-266
Numbering:Letn. 81, št. 1
UDC:27-46
ISSN on article:2335-4127
DOI:10.34291/Edinost/81/01/Ganc This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:285532163 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:05.11.2026
Views:26
Downloads:0
Metadata:XML DC-XML DC-RDF
:
Copy citation
Share:Bookmark and Share

Record is a part of a journal

Title:Edinost in dialog : revija za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog
Publisher:Inštitut za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog pri Teološki fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, Inštitut za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog pri Teološki fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, Inštitut Stanka Janežiča za dogmatično, osnovno in ekumensko teologijo ter religiologijo in dialog, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
ISSN:2335-4127
COBISS.SI-ID:268194560 This link opens in a new window

Licences

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:Avtentičnost in naloga razločevanja : pastoralna hermenevtika krščanskega življenja
Abstract:
Avtentičnost je postala pomemben jezik, s katerim mnogi ljudje v pozni moderni govorijo o razumevanju sebe, integriteti, zaupanju, pripadnosti in želji, da bi vero živeli resnicoljubno. Pastoralna teologija mora zato ta jezik obravnavati z razločevanjem: ne sme ga preprosto odpraviti kot izrazni individualizem, hkrati pa ga ne more sprejeti kot samostojno krščansko normo. Članek zagovarja, da je avtentičnost najbolje razumeti kot pastoralni signal, ki zahteva teološko razločevanje. Na podlagi interdisciplinarnih pristopov najprej prepozna ponavljajoče se skrbi: osebno sprejetje vere, skladnost med besedo in življenjem, relacijsko verodostojnost, ranljivost in družbeno prepoznanje. Nato te skrbi preokviri z biblično-teološkimi motivi resnicoljubnosti pred Bogom, kristološkega pričevanja, hoje za Kristusom in odgovornega cerkvenega občestva. Konstruktivni pristop Christy Capper uporabi kot vir za pojasnitev, kako je mogoče avtentičnost znotraj krščanske teološke antropologije usmeriti onkraj samega sebe. Osrednji prispevek članka je predlog pastoralne hermenevtike avtentičnosti: disciplinirane prakse poslušanja, interpretiranja, razločevanja in spremljanja v situacijah pastoralne skrbi, nezaupanja, samospraševanja, institucionalnega razočaranja in iskanja vere, ki jo človek lahko osebno sprejme in živi kot svojo. Avtentičnost ima zato resnično, vendar omejeno pastoralno vrednost. Cerkvi lahko pomaga razbrati, kaj ljudje izražajo s sodobnimi sklicevanji na avtentičnost, pri čemer norma krščanskega življenja ostaja resnicoljubno življenje, prejeto od Boga, razodeto v Kristusu in živeto v cerkvenem občestvu.

Keywords:avtentičnost, pastoralna teologija, pastoralna hermenevtika, pozna moderna, razločevanje, krščanska antropologija

Similar documents

Similar works from RUL:
Similar works from other Slovenian collections:

Collection

This document is a part of these collections:
  1. Edinost in dialog

Back