Original scientific paper
IN SEARCH OF CHRIST Christological problems in dialogue monographs of Romano Guardini
Anđelko Domazet
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
In this work the author analyses Christological problems
found in the dialogue monographs of Roman Guardini. The
work is divided in two parts. The first part presents Guardini’s
hermeneutic activity as a specific feature of his theology, and also
his theoretical thoughts and theses on what the meaning is and
how the interpretation of literary texts should develop. The dialogue
monographs point to the necessity for theology to be in dialogue
with other areas of human creativity, especially with literature and
poetry, and that the results are conveyed to its evaluation.
In the second part of the work, starting from the hermeneutic
background of his theological analysis that makes the expression
“Christian view of life” understood as an encounter between faith
and the world, the author analyses Christological problems in
his works relating to Dante, Pascal, Dostoievski and Hölderlin.
The study about Dante points out the anthropological aspect in
particular, i.e. the problem of the meaning of finality and human
history that reaches its own fullness in the light of human
existence of Jesus Christ. Interpreting the figure of Pascal it
is shown how philosophical anthropology gets its fullness in
theological anthropology. In the monograph about Dostoievski
the problems of (im) possibility of Christian message is treated,
and with Hölderlin his two-valued Christological thinking is
investigated, where Christ’s figure seems to be equated with other
mythological figures of “saviours” of the world. That impossibility
of an integral and entire Christology marks the people of modern
time and “post-Christian religiosity”.
Keywords
Christology; anthropology; dialogue between theology and literature (poetry); art of interpretation; Christian view of life; Dante; Pascal; Dostoievski; Hölderlin
Hrčak ID:
23170
URI
Publication date:
21.3.2007.
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