A RELATIONAL THEOLOGY OF LIFE AND ITS MEANING

Abstract

This study treats the question of life in terms of its meaning in human history. Postmodern civilization poses serious challenges to theology, one of the most notable being the question of the meaning of life. Beginning with the human search for meaning, the author presents a conception of life as a permanent process of maturing. Life is continually called on to fulfil its vocation to engage in relationships that are full of meaning. The second part of the article relates the search for the meaning of life to scientific knowledge in the context of epochal changes, in the light of an original presence of absolute meaning in human history. The goal is to say that Christian faith attests that existence has its ground in personal relationship with God, which makes relationships the place of integration for being a person.