Wiara w doświadczeniu religijnym – możliwości i ograniczenia perspektywy psychologicznej

Abstract

Among the many issues concerning the relation of man to God is the chief place of religious faith. Analysis of faith take many scientists, placing it to one of the finest religious problems and one of the most psychologically complex issues. This essay is an attempt to look at the issue of religious faith from a psychological point of view. Psychology is one of the many sciences of religion, and especially psychologists try to answer three questions: the basic themes of faith, and human religious experience is that the function of religious beliefs in one’s life. Psychology deals with the totality of beliefs, experiences, and behaviors related to the survival of the entity relationships to the world-transcendent God, is therefore religiosity. Transcendent reality can represent the individual not only as a right, but also as something that is important to her, or that may occur in the order of values, may be something that involves the whole person. From the epistemological and methodological themes of faith, religious experience, religion is a major challenge for psychology. Of course, dealing with the psychology of religion, does not deal with the evidence for the existence of God and the doctrinal and theological content. The psychologist as a scientist and researcher does not put the question of whether God exists, but is interested in the fact that God is important to people. Psychology of religion is to accept transcendental experience, and belief without taking the test factuality or truth of the existence of a transcendent object. Does not analyze the institutional church as sociology. Describes primarily subjective and personal aspects of religious beliefs. The problem contained in the topic is presented in the following aspects. First, it pointed out the possibilities and limitations of psychology as a science for the topic of faith. Second, it focuses on the psychological aspects of faith and religious experience psychologizacji danger. Psychological knowledge can – but within certain limits – say, the faith and religious experience are not religious. What they are, and especially what is faith in religious experience – rather, does not. The source of this experience, which determines its essence, about faith, hope and love, lies in the realm of what a human “incomprehensible”. The only thing he can do is to keep in mind with Veritatis splendor of the truth to try to live, nothing to it without taking anything or not adding to it. From the faith and do not expect a comfortable sure, but Let us be able to derive the courage to enter into a cloud of mystery, because faith is the ability to live with mystery.