Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.14.3.7
On the prophetic spirit of Željko Mardešić
Ivan Supičić
Abstract
The work of Željko Mardešić is strongly marked by scientificity and spirituality. But it also has an undeniable prophetic character. And this not only in a sense of a possible "predictions" of future events, but in the most part also in deeper foresights of reality which are not discovered and expressed by others. Mardešić reaches the essential problems of the contemporary world in its spiritual state of mind. Today’s man is exposed in it to numerous splits, self-deceptions, illusions and false appearances; he is able to lie to himself and to others, to be true or alienated, just to appear or to really be. This can grow even to collective dimensions. Some Mardešić’s projections about Church and Christianism witness of interconnection of their spiritual and scientific aspects. According to Mardešić, the Church should be a Church of poor and neglected, of deep humanness, of hope and joy, of reconciliation and forgiving and of sincere dialogue with the contemporary world. Mardešić is also deeply committed to an entirely personalistic Christianism, outside of any collectivistic and ideological visions, to cessation of its linking with politics, which led in the past to worst deformations, and to trust in freedom and in free man. The world can change only if we change ourselves first. The Christianism of future must find again its original "human face", which is nothing else than the divine-humain face of Jesus Christ.
Keywords
Željko Mardešić; prophetic spirit; distortions of consciousness; Christianism with a human face; the future of Church and Christianism
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168714
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Publication date:
21.11.2016.
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