DIVINE LAW IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES

U posljednjih 50-ak godina ili, možemo čak reći, od Drugog vatikanskog koncila osjeća se svojevrsna promjena u odnosu spram vjere i vjerskoga sadržaja, o čemu svjedoče brojni dokumenti Crkve i papa. Tako je novonastali kontekst zahtijevao odlučnu reakciju Crkve u svrhu osnaženja vjerskog osjećaja i odnosa spram Boga. U istome kontekstu istaknuo se sekularizam kao „avet“ koji je doprinio bijegu i nevjeri božanskim zakonima, što je u konačnici rezultiralo gubitkom osjećaja za grijeh i osjećaja za teologalne kreposti. Ti su uvjeti doprinijeli osvjetljavanju božanskih zakona kao nečemu puno višem od skupa propisa. Štoviše, božanski zakon očituje nam dvije bitne činjenice: Bog se objavljuje i Bog se dariva. Božanski zakon jest objava Božja i dar kojim se komunicira/daje čovjeku u Isusu Kristu i Duhu Svetom.In the last 50 years, or we can even say since the Second Vatican Council, there is a kind of change in relation towards faith and religious content, as evidenced by numerous papal and Church documents. The newly-created context required a decisive reaction of the Church in order to strengthen the religious feeling of the faithful and their relationship with God. In the same context secularism became prominent as a “specter” that contributed to the escape and the disbelief of divine laws, what ultimately resulted in the loss of the sense of guilt for sins and the loss of the sense for theological virtues. These conditions have contributed to illuminating divine laws as something much higher than a set of regulations. Moreover, divine law reveals two essential facts to us: God is revealing and giving himself. The divine law is the revelation of God and the gift through which God communicates / gives himself to the human being in Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit