Original scientific paper

Christian – Catholic Worldview According to Romano Guardini

Ivica Raguž orcid.org/0000-0002-0083-0325 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Đakovo, Croatia

Abstract

The paper analyzes the concept of Christian and Catholic worldview in the thought of Romano Guardini. The first part discusses Guardini's understanding of worldview as such. The second part shows that the true idea of worldview, and that is at the same time a departure and a closeness, is realized in Jesus Christ, or in the Christian faith. Only the Christian faith offers a worldview, a vision and a view of the world, so there is also a discussion about the specific determinants of the Christian worldview. The third part presents Guardini's interpretation of the Catholic worldview, or Catholicism. His doctrine of opposites plays an especially important role. For the German theologian, the Catholic is that what is comprehensive, what covers all the opposites and puts them into a fruitful correlation, giving each opposite a limit, and also a measure and rhythm, and with it an enrichment. In that sense, the Catholic, seen as a fruitful, non-exclusive, intense act of the opposites, remains a permanent imperative for both the Church and the individual in the Church.

Keywords

Romano Guardini; Christian worldview; Catholic worldview; Catholicism; opposites; Church

Hrčak ID:

147881

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/147881

Publication date:

3.11.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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