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- Title
Saint Pope John Paul II's Notion of the Experience of a Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Authors
ŠLIUŽAITĖ, Vilma
- Abstract
The article analyzes Saint Pope John Paul II's Notion of the Experience of a Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ, by highlighting three aspects. First, for Saint Pope John Paul II, an authentic Christian experience always contains the dimensions of 'givenness' and 'inwardness.' In other words, man enters into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ only if his heart has inwardly been touched by God's love first. Second, the experience of faith in Christ is dynamic by its very nature: to believe in Christ means to follow Christ through concrete acts of love and service to God and other human beings. Third, a person can have an authentic Christian experience only if he belongs to the Body of Christ, the Church.
- Subjects
JOHN Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005; JESUS Christ; LOVE in religion
- Publication
Soter: Journal of Religious Science / Religijos Mokslo Žurnalas, 2017, Vol 63, Issue 91, p9
- ISSN
1392-7450
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2335-8785.63(91).1