Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.5.10

Understanding Faith and the Image of God Among a Young Believers Today. Presentation of the Survey Results on the Attitudes and Opinions of Young People about Understanding Faith and the Image of God in Croatia

Martina s. Ana Begić orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-5474 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Mislav Kutleša ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Young people are often the object of reflection of the adults. They are often subject to their analysis, reflection, and teaching. We believe that any constructive criticism aimed at teaching young people based on analysis and reflection should necessarily be preceded by what Pope Francis calls us to in his pontificate – listening. Thus, this article went in the same direction – to listen and observe the voice and the word of young people, all with the aim of serving them in a correct and holistic way, i.e., so that their faith, as St. Paul says in the Epistle to the Ephesians, may grow to the knowledge of the Son of God, and that they grow to the measure of the full stature of Christ (cf. Eph 4: 13–14). Through these words, the Church seeks her way to meet young people and serve the Good News as the main task entrusted to her by the Risen Christ. The article presents a part of the survey results, using the Google Forms platform, conducted on a self–selected sample of students and working youth (aged 18–35) in Croatia. The research was conducted on a sample of 727 members of the reference population, and it is a convenience type of non-probabilistic sampling. The aim was to observe, based on the research results, which attitudes and faith emerge from the image of God that young people have.

Keywords

faith; image of God; youth; sacramental life; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

273910

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/273910

Publication date:

16.3.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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