THEOLOGY 1:

CHRISTIAN VISION OF THE HUMAN PERSON

THE ENCOUNTER WITH

JESUS CHRIST IS A CALL
TO DISCIPLESHIP
Ms. Mariel Blanza
What do we care about the most in this life?
INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Intersubjectivity, or
other-awareness
How the
We want to know
experience of “the
what it takes to
other” may be
experience the
needed for the
“other” as “the
development of
other”
self-awareness.
 Intersubjectivity
The idea of
refers to the
intersubjectivity
condition of It pertains to
presupposes
man as a subject human relations.
human
alongside other
subjectivity.
men.
 Martin
Buber’s
Philosophical
Anthropology
 We must
The “I” cannot exist withstand the
The self always
Begins from in isolation, and temptation to
finds its fullness in
lived always exists reduce other
the existence of
experience. alongside other people to a
other selves.
“I’s.” means for us to
use.
I-Thou vs. I-It Relationship
I-It (Ich-Es) Relationship:

“Monological” relationship

Considers the other as a mere

instrument to achieve a need

Reduces the other to an object that

is measurable and manipulatable.
I-Thou Relationship:

“Dialogical” relationship

The “Thou” is not reducible to

certain characteristics

Views the other as a genuine

person capable of feeling the
same way as the self
“Everyone must come out
of his Exile in his own
way.”
― Martin Buber
“All real living is
meeting.”
― Martin Buber
“The world is not
comprehensible, but it is
embraceable: through
the embracing of one of
its beings.”
― Martin Buber
 Emmanuel
Levinas’
“The Face of
the Other”
OTHER

• Sometimes capitalized, sometimes

not) usually translates the French
word autrui, which means “the
other person,” “someone else”
(i.e., other than oneself).
OTHER

• Levinas more
often uses the
singular “other”
to emphasize that
we encounter
others one at a
time, face to face.
By “face” Levinas means the
human face (or in French,
visage), but not thought of or
experienced as a physical or
aesthetic object. Rather, the
first, usual, unreflective
encounter with the face is as
the living presence of another
person and, therefore, as
something experienced socially
and ethically.
“I do not grasp
the other in
order to
dominate; I
respond, instead,
to the face’s
epiphany.” -
Levinas
 Following Christ is the essential and
primordial foundation of Christian morality.
Jesus’ ways and words, his deeds and his
precepts constitute the moral rule of Christian
life…VS 20

We turn to Jesus Christ:

We listen to His words.

We follow His actions.

 What does Discipleship entail?

If you want to be perfect, go sell your

possessions, come follow me. Matthew 19:21

“If anyone would come after me, let

him deny himself and take up his cross
and follow me. Matthew 16:24
Beatitudes is a set of precepts that utterly demonstrate
the moral standards of our Lord and at the same time
resonate His call to follow Him as His disciples.
Christ Crucified

• According to St.
Thomas Aquinas,
Christ Crucified is The
Perfect Exemplification
of the Beatitudes
Christ crucified:
A picture of a
happy man.
 To be happy:

Despise what Jesus despised on the cross.

4 things that make us happy:

wealth, pleasure, power, honour

 The Single-hearted One,

Hungers for
righteousness,
Love what Jesus Doing the will of
loved on the cross. the Father: Ultimate peacemaker,
and

Ultimate bearer of God’s

mercy.
 Who is a Disciple?
A disciple is a lover of Truth: Jesus the Way, the Truth and
the Life

What makes one a disciple?

A disciple imitates Jesus who gives primacy to the will of
the Father.

What is expected of a disciple?

A disciple lives in loving service of others.
Becoming To live in communion with one
like Christ another, just like what He did.
is:
This is how they will know that you
are my disciples: “If you have love for
one another” (John 13:34-35)
 CAN WE
STILL HAVE
AN
ENCOUNTER
WITH JESUS?
The Church: Willed by God to Make
Possible the Encounter with Christ
She signifies in a Visible,
The Church was instituted by Historical and Tangible form the
Christ to perpetuate His presence and redeeming activity
presence on earth. of Christ offered to all persons of
every age, race, and condition.
Sacraments are encounters with God through Jesus Christ in the
Church through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Baptism Birth

Confirmation Maturity

7 Sacraments
Eucharist Growth

Marriage Relationship

Fundamental
Sacrament
Holy Orders Service for Others
Sacrament
Primordial

Reconciliation Commit Mistakes

Anointing of the Sick Sick and Death

The Church wishes to serve this single end: That each
person may be able to find Christ, in order that Christ may
walk with each person the path of life (RH 13).
The Church was instituted as the sacrament of
salvation of all, not only of the explicit
members but also those who share in the
“theandric communion without explicit
awareness of Christic foundation,”
Therefore, Jesus entrusted
to the Church the mission:

To make present in every time, in

every situation the encounter
between the spirit and the flesh,
God and mankind.

To promote and preserve, within

the unity of the Church, the faith
and the moral life.
The Eucharist helps us in becoming True Christian
disciples
In the Eucharist,
when we receive the
body and blood of
Jesus in Holy
Communion, we are:
Invited to discover
who Jesus is:
Jesus is the one
who loves fully.
In communion, we become like
Jesus who is:

Comforter One who One who

Friend of of those proclaims obeys the
the poor, who the good Father’s
suffer, news, and will.
Assisted by the Holy
Spirit who leads her into
all the truth, the Church
has not ceased, nor can
she ever cease, to
contemplate the
"mystery of the Word
Incarnate", in whom
"light is shed on the
mystery of man.” (GS 22)
 Make an Oath of Discipleship
ACTIVITY guided by the two questions
below:

What obstacles do you

see that hinders you in
following Jesus?

What possible
solutions can you think
of for you to be
committed to Jesus?