Unification with Christ in the Church according to Waclaw Hryniewicz’s paschal trilogy

Abstract

The author takes up a reflection on Waclaw Hryniewicz’s interpretation of man’s unification with Christ in the Church as the spiritual Body of Christ. She bases mainly on the main work of the theologian, called the paschal trilogy. She explains the possibility of personal unification with God achieved by Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, and the descent of the Holy Spirit that are actualized in the Church. She takes a brief look at the genesis of the Church, her nature and tasks, all of that in the hermeneutic key of the complementarity. The author addresses the question of unification with Christ, which Waclaw Hryniewicz OMI presents in terms of the personal causation, imitation and participation, and the synergism principle.