Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.60.4.4
Blessing as an Encounter of Self-Realization of Personality
Emanuel Petrov
orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-7803
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
Starting from the primordial reality of the covenant between God and man, the author seeks answers to the questions of man's existence and his identity. As an interaction of gift and contribution, interpersonal relationships permeate man's personality, and dictate communion with other people. It is an experience of searching for oneself in the perihoretic permeation of persons, without robbing another or oneself. Therefore, freedom and love are two fundamental determinants of human existence. Finally, observing the basic structure of blessing, and thanks to the "eulogical attempt" of Lothar Lies, we come to the existential truth about man as a being of encounter, who through a relationship with others enters into a relationship with God, who is love itself and thus finally gets to know himself and realizes himself as a beloved creature to whom eternal life and imperishable existence have been given.
Keywords
person, identity, existence, encounter, blessing
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Publication date:
10.11.2020.
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