Folia Theologica et Canonica 11. 33/25 (2022)
Sacra theologia
98 LÁSZLÓ GÁJER Abstract Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) explored the concept of faith examined in the sense of Christian theology, but he also raised objections to it. He considered the nature and content of Christian faith to be closed, since it was bound up with the content of revelation. On the other hand, he believed that a faith understood in a philosophical sense has an open dynamic. It is not tied to any Church teaching, catechism or pre-revealed content offaith, but following its path we can freely get close to existence. Thus he assumed greater freedom in the case of philosophical faith than in the case of Christian religious faith. That the Christian faith can have such an existential character is, I think, undeniable. In the end, however, Jaspers, who grew up as a Lutheran in a bourgeois family indifferent to the Church, did not want to bring philosophical faith closer to religious faith. In this short paper I will try to explore some of the motives for this decision. László Gájer Pázmány Péter Catholic University gájer. laszlo. istvan@htk.ppke. hu
