Responsibility as an expression of the communicative, social character of spirituality


Abstrakt:

Christian spirituality perceives responsibility in a broad, realistic way. Perhaps the most valuable element of such perception of responsibility is connecting the latter with God, detecting an expression of God’s selfless love in it. Such is the responsibility that God shares with His creation; it is His creation that is endowed with such responsibility. The message thus indicated helps to discern in the responsibility borne by the human being a task, a privilege, a reality conducive to development, freedom, a gift of huge potential. It is not only about e.g. correcting mistaken perceptions of responsibility or showing motivation to bear it. Interesting and encouraging perspectives of development, of shaping a human being, human society and the world can open up here.
Key words: responsibility, Christian spirituality, society, communion, responsibility before God, God, Christianity