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Ignatius - a Message for the Present
Ivan Koprek
; Filozofski fakultet Družbe Isusove u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Which is Ignatius' message to present-day man? The author has attempted to analyse this issue, firstly by defining and describing the circumstance and the time man of the present day is living and, secondly, by analysing Ignatius' person and his work which conveys a message to contemporary man. As for the present, it is a time of egocentrism, man is losing inner confidence in his own status, fate, and reason. He lives in anguish and insecurity, he is inclined to scepsis and enjoyment, saturated with finiteness, ignoring eterni¬ty, succumbing to faint-heartedness. Present-day man has no ideals, he has lost his identity and his personal ego, the true reason of his freedom. Igna¬tius has a wealth of things to announce and bring to such a man. Ignatius was, in the first place, a realist: he considered reality to be something indi-vidual, personal, and objective. In his service to man he thought and acted, but not heartlessly. He was a man of effective love, »immeasurable but pre¬cisely measured.” His spirituality is an example of liberation of man for that inner freedom which essentially includes a healthy coolness and a certain distance to creatures and things. Ignatius offers the world of today correct dialectics of reason and heart, of intelligence and emotions. The measure of Ignatius' wisdom, (spirituality), is Christ's love, this new command which sets the norm of man's behaviour, the love of God towards man.
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Hrčak ID:
51020
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Datum izdavanja:
20.4.1993.
Posjeta: 1.180 *