A Particle of Amazement  Which Will Become the Essence of Eternity.  The Meaning of Friendship in the Life  and Thought of Saint John Paul II

Filip De Rycke

doi:10.15633/ps.3652

A Particle of Amazement Which Will Become the Essence of Eternity. The Meaning of Friendship in the Life and Thought of Saint John Paul II

Authors

Filip De Rycke Sint-Janscentrum in ’s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/ps.3652

Keywords:

love, chastity, Aquinas, communio personarum

Abstract

Friendships with the most various kinds of people played an important role in the life of Saint John Paul II. In his reflections on friendship, the pope elaborates Thomistic categories from his personalist perspective. According to Pope Wojtyła, friendship is a specific form of chaste love. Among the friends, it works out a deep union that is an image of the triune God and an anticipation of the everlasting communion of the saints.

Author Biography

Filip De Rycke, Sint-Janscentrum in ’s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands)

P. Filip De Rycke (ORCID: 0000-0002-4239-4269) – (Belgium) is a priest of the diocese ’s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands) and superior of the major seminary. E-mail:
rector@sint-janscentrum.nl. The author sincerely thanks mr. Stephen Rozak for his precise corrections of the English grammar.

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Published

2020-07-31

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2020): The Legacy of John Paul II

Section

Thematic articles

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