“A Person Is Reborn. A Person Is Not Reformed.” a JPII lecture by Prof. Stanisław Grygiel

We invite you to the next lecture of the 2021/22 series of “JP2 Lectures”, to be held at 4:30 PM on Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Aula 11 at the Angelicum

The lecture by Professor Stanisław Grygiel (f. professor and vice-president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family) will be titled “A Person Is Reborn. A Person Is Not Reformed.” 

The author, following in the footsteps of Saint John Paul II, views the world and human person in the light of the Beginning, that is, in the light of the act of creation. In doing so, his thinking is permeated with the certainty that the desire for truth, which troubles the human heart, does not lead us nowhere. By returning to the Beginning, that is, to the act of creation, the human person is reborn. The person is reborn to the Love that creates the human being and is reborn in the love to which God calls him or her to by creating them man and woman. The person is not reformed. Consequently, personal communities – marriage, family, nation and Church – are not reformed. Communities are either reborn or they die. Reforms destroy them. Modernity, with its belief that truth is not a “gift from God” but a product of human praxis, does not understand how truth and goodness happen. It does not understand the act of entrusting oneself to their consequences. It does not understand freedom. Therefore, in its constant reformation of itself, it grows old towards nothingness.

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