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Partindo da definição de fé dada pela Dei Verbum, este artigo explora alguns dos elementos fundamentais da condição crente, relacionados com a sua compreensão como acto humano (fides qua) e como conteúdo a crer (fides quae). Na primeira dimensão, ter fé é aceitar a vida e o seu sentido como dádiva gratuita; na segunda dimensão, ser crente cristão é compreender a existência como ser a partir do outro e ser para o outro, enquanto núcleo de relações de diferenças reais/pessoais vividas por um ser humano corpóreo ou incarnado. Todos estes aspetos se encontram com desafios específicos numa cultura que se pretendeu auto-suficiente e auto-construtora, que acentua o valor da auto-realização individual, que tem tendência a dissolver as diferenças pessoais
em holismos sistémicos globais e que manifesta certa desconfiança em relação à existência corpórea, pela sua transfiguração virtualizante.
Taking as its starting point the definition of faith as given by the Dei Verbum, this article explores some of the fundamental elements of the condition of the believer, related to an understanding of it as a human act (fides qua) and as a content in which to believe (fides quae). On the first plane, to have faith is to accept life and its meaning as a freely given gift; on the second, to be a Christian believer is to comprehend existence as being coming from the other and being for the other, as a nucleus of relationships of real/personal differences lived by a corporeal or incarnate human being. All of these aspects are bound up with specific challenges in a culture that has sought to be self-sufficient and self-constructing, that stresses the value of individual self-realisation, that has a tendency to dissolve personal differences in global systemic holisms, and that manifests a certain mistrust in relation to corporeal existence, through its potentialising transfiguration.
Taking as its starting point the definition of faith as given by the Dei Verbum, this article explores some of the fundamental elements of the condition of the believer, related to an understanding of it as a human act (fides qua) and as a content in which to believe (fides quae). On the first plane, to have faith is to accept life and its meaning as a freely given gift; on the second, to be a Christian believer is to comprehend existence as being coming from the other and being for the other, as a nucleus of relationships of real/personal differences lived by a corporeal or incarnate human being. All of these aspects are bound up with specific challenges in a culture that has sought to be self-sufficient and self-constructing, that stresses the value of individual self-realisation, that has a tendency to dissolve personal differences in global systemic holisms, and that manifests a certain mistrust in relation to corporeal existence, through its potentialising transfiguration.
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Fé Cultura contemporânea Dom Diferença Pessoa Incarnação Virtualidade Faith Contemporary culture Gift Difference Person Incarnation Potentiality
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DUQUE, João Manuel - A condição crente perante os desafios do futuro. Didaskalia. Lisboa. ISSN 0253-1674. 42:2 (2012) 165-176
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Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa