The Issue Of Christian Anthropology

2e text of Gaudium et spes has not yet become the basis for a systematic analysisfrom the point of view of Christian anthropology+>. We shall not conducta systematic analysis at the end of this article. We will only mention a fewissues that are particularly important in our opinion. 2e first issue is the veryarrangement of the first chapter of the Constitutions. It speaks firstly of thedignity of the individual, then of the human community, and only then does itmove on to the discussion of human activity in the world and the tasks of theChurch in the modern world. 2e anthropological concept of the text can beseen from the very layout of the chapters of the first part.2e idea is that the concept of the presence of the Church in the contemporaryworld, that is, the concept of the Church as a sign, that is, a modern conceptof pastoral ministry with the whole Church as a subject, depends on the rightattitude and resolution of the question of who I am and who I – man – become.2is is the basic premise of an anthropological structure, expressed in questionsabout the dignity of the person and the human community.