The Christian Understanding of Happiness

• Main Author: Andrzej Zwoliński
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Press 2016-04-01
• Series: The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II
• Subjects: Happiness; heaven; Christianity; Church Fathers; Jesus; The Old Testament; the Church
• Online Access: http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/1659/1612

The relationship with God allows man to find the sense of life. Christianity is a humanism – it positions man in the very centre of the world according him the highest place – of the being created after God’s image. The revelation of God’s Love endows man with a new way of enriching himself and others. Thus the desire for happiness gains a new perspective of the divine longing for good. Happiness which Christ promises exceeds the limits of our imagination. It is incon­ ceivable and incomprehensible to those living on earth. Heaven is beyond every word, beyond our conception for it bears the meaning which man cannot fully understand. It is the most supreme happiness, absolutely perfect and complete which no one has ever known. A Christian has to achieve in his life something more than the worldly aims. Whoever limits their life to the earth, focuses only on enjoying and using this life to the full; squeezing from it the last drop heedless of the needs of others.