Roczniki Filozoficzne

Volume 18, Issue 4, 1970

Man — Religious Being

From the fact that the historical as well as prehistorical man — (as far as we know of his existence through paleontological findings) — in his immense majority professed some religion, may be concluded that his religiosity in the very substance of the man’s reasonable nature, and not any of his accidental traits, occasionally conditioned. Therefore, the interpretations of religion, transmitted through the theories of psychologism, marxism and existentialism, and accompanied by a faulty comprehension of religious functions, are not satisfactory. The structure of religious acts consists of reasonable, volitional and emotional elements. They are unified by an intensional disposition towards God, yet imbued with a particular religious impulse which acts along with other drives in man, and constitutes the specificity of religious experience. Every great religion created a specific type of religiosity. It is manifest in the Christian religion which, through time, has branched out into various types of religiosity, notably catholic, protestant and others. The plenitude of man’s development also calls for a well — balanced religious life.