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  • Forming the New Evangelist ...
    Punda, Edvard; Kovačević, Danko

    Bogoslovska smotra (Online), 2022, Letnik: 91, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    John Paul II has put the newness of evangelization into proportion with qualities of ardor, method, and expression. Evangelization as a witness of encountering the risen Lord requires growth in quality and removal of obstacles for the encounter of Christ, the prime-evangelist, with every human person, resulting in the transformation of humanity within, into a new being. This love of Christ encounters man through its own transcendental properties by overriding man’s inattentiveness, ignorance, and adversity, with all gentleness and respect, within an interpersonal »I -Thou« dialogue. The methodological order by which Hans Urs von Balthasar realigns the transcendentals of Being as Love – beauty, goodness, truth – offers a promising frame and substance for the interpretation of the qualities of New evangelization and those who aspire to practice it. In the encounter with the beauty of the Lord (his Glory) the human person becomes enraptured by it, resulting in religious conversion (demonstratio religiosa). Such a person has her ardor ignited, with an ever stronger desire of responding to the call to »come and see« and »come and follow«. Hence commences the central phase, the drama of imitating Christ; by meeting the one that is Good, the ardent evangelist finds and exhibits a method: existing by playing a supporting role to Christ’s kenotic love on the stage of the world, thus going through the process of moral conversion (demonstration Christiana) and becoming ever better himself. The final phase of obedience and self-emptying (in continuity with the rapture and the drama), inseparable from a life of prayer, consists in reflecting and expressing the truth lived in a saintly existence, the unique personal form of a true lover of Wisdom, for whom »to die is to gain«. In such a manner, the world which seeks witnesses more than teachers is offered abundant reason to enter an existential encounter with Being as Love in the process of intellectual conversion (demonstration Catholica) towards Christ as universal concretum. Ivan Pavao II stavio je u srazmjer novost evangelizacije sa kvalitetama žara, metode i izraza. Evangelizacija kao svjedočanstvo susreta s osobom uskrslog Gospodina zahtjeva rast u tim kvalitetama i uklanjanje prepreka susretu Krista, primarnog evangelizatora, sa svakom ljudskom osobom, rezultirajući nutarnjom preobrazbom čovječanstva u novo stvorenje. Ova ljubav Kristova susreće čovjeka putem vlastitih transcendentalnih svojstava nadilazeći ljudsku nepažnju, neznanje i otpor, blago i s poštovanjem, kroz međuosobni »Ja-Ti« dijalog. Metodološki poredak kojim Hans Urs von Balthasar preuređuje transcendentale Bitka kao Ljubavi – ljepotu, dobrotu, istinu – nudi obećavajući okvir i sadržaj za tumačenje kvaliteta nove evangelizacije i onih koji teže k tome da je vrše. U susretu sa ljepotom Gospodina (njegovom Slavom) ljudska osoba biva njome ugrabljena, što rezultira religioznim obraćenjem (demonstratio religiosa). Takvoj osobi zapaljen je žar, sa sve snažnijom čežnjom odaziva na poziv »dođi i vidi« i »dođi i slijedi me«. Tako počinje središnja faza, drama nasljedovanja Krista; susrećući Dobroga, ožareni evangelizator nalazi i očituje metodu: postojanje igranjem uloge sporedne onoj Kristove kenotičke ljubavi na pozornici svijeta, prolazeći tako kroz proces moralnog obraćenja (demonstratio christiana) i bivajući tako i sam sve više dobar. Završna faza poslušnosti i samo-ispražnjenja (u kontinuitetu sa ugrabljenošću i dramom), neodvojiva od života u molitvi, sastoji se od promišljanja i izražavanja življene istine putem svetačke egzistencije, jedinstvene osobne forme istinskog ljubitelja Mudrosti, kojemu je »smrt dobitak«. Na ovaj način, svijetu koji traži svjedoke više od učitelja ponuđeni su izdašni razlozi za ulazak u egzistencijalni susret s Bitkom kao Ljubavi u procesu intelektualnog obraćenja (demonstratio catholica) Kristu kao onome koji je universale concretum.