Wacław Hryniewicz’s Paschal Christology

Abstract

The article describes the key premises and features of Wacław Hryniewicz’s Christology. The presentation is done on the background of contemporary currents in Christology and their classification drawn up by Walter Cardinal Kasper. The sources of the article are limited to the Hryniewicz’s paschal trilogy: Christ, Our Passover (1982), Our Passover in Christ (1987), The Passover of Christ in the History of Man and Cosmos (1991). Deeply biblical, theological, historical and ecumenical investigations were aimed to show, that Hryniewicz’s paschal Christology managed to avoid unilateral presentation of various streams of kerygmatic and dogmatic Christology, as well as of Christologies focused solely on historical Jesus. Paschal Christology is also able to bring together purely theological concepts and the elements of spirituality.