Anthropology of Benedict XVI against a Background of Erroneous Contemporaries Anthropologies

Pope Benedict XVI in his speeches spoke up in weighty matters for humanity. Definitely presented the Catholic position and pointed out mistakes of false ideologies, especially concerning human being, his nature, vocation, the sense of life and conduct. Most of all he indicated the pernicious influence of such ideology on the conduct of man and society. The chief defect of ideologies spread around today and at the same time their common denominator – according to the Pope – is the denial of the transcendent dimension of man, and even directly combating of what is the subject of a formal theological anthropology, that means the man’s relation with God. At the same time, the characteristic of theses ideologies is the fact that they want to be universal and want to form social life. In this article, the author discusses these ideologies and shows what is contrary in them to the theological anthropology. The author also presents the characteristics of anthropology of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI as dialogical, relational, communional and integral