TY - JOUR AU - Żywica, Zdzisław PY - 2018/11/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Rozumna służba a odnowiony umysł w świetle Rz 12,1-2 JF - Collectanea Theologica JA - ct VL - 88 IS - 1 SE - Artykuły DO - 10.21697/ct.2018.88.1.01 UR - https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/ct/article/view/3012 SP - 5-21 AB - Exegetical analysis of propositio 12,1-2 and its rhetorical context<br />allows us to conclude that the overriding message is an encouragement<br />to render “a reasonable service to God”. According to Paul, it<br />relies on the constant and absolute faithfulness of his will to sacrifice<br />“himself” (sōma) in “a living, sacred and pleasant sacrifice”, that is, to the measure of the sinful humanity of mercy in the salvific work<br />of Jesus; “according to the faith received from God” (12,3). For the<br />Apostle, the constantly “renewed mind with the Gospel” and the<br />power of the Holy Spirit is an absolute condition to fully know God’s<br />will, “transform oneself” (sōma) and save it redemptive effectively<br />through God’s “goodness, perfection and love”. It is obvious to him<br />that only a man implanted in Christ through the Gospel, baptism<br />and the Holy Spirit becomes his “image” also in the way of thinking<br />(the mind), therefore he is able to constantly re-explore the sense of<br />“reasonable service” to finally find out that it is “evangelical service”<br />in the power of the Holy Spirit, modeled on Jesus himself. This is<br />the only rationally mature (according to the wisdom and justice of<br />God) and worth of a “new creature” (Christian) the answer to God<br />for the work of salvation made in Christ, who sacrificed himself to<br />God in the Passover as a sacrifice of the “good, perfect, living holy<br />and the kind”. ER -