Benedykta XVI perspektywa dialogu miłości Stwórcy ze stworzeniem

Abstract

Man was created by God in the image of God (Gen 1,27) in a dialogue of love. The article, edited on the basis of the sources of Benedict XVI’s theology of creation, treats as the subject of analysis the qualitative interpretation of love revealed by God in the act of creation and present in the history of mankind with the passage of time until the fulfillment of the history of the world. God’s activity cannot be enclosed in the clasp of human logic, because mercy is its content. Man called by God to communion with Him is surrounded by caring merciful love that does not deprive him of freedom and decisions that do not always correspond to God’s logic. Pope Benedict XVI reveals God as creator consistently responsible for the gift of human life formed in love and oriented towards existential fulfillment by man. At the same time, he draws attention to the need, which created man must be guided by, to discover His presence in human existence with the commitment of man’s own free will. God’s love is the source of continual transformation into His image, to finally become one with Him. Man’s acknowledgment of this Truth and adherence to it with mind and heart is a guarantee of the realization of God’s plan of love.