Marian Rusecki

The chapter presents Marian Rusecki as one of the most important architects of contemporary Polish fundamental theology and a leading representative of the Lublin school. At the centre of his research was the credibility of Christianity, understood more broadly than in classical apologetics focused on individual proofs. Rusecki developed a theology of Revelation, miracle, Resurrection, and the Church, interpreting particular signs as mutually complementary reasons supporting Christian credibility. He stressed that apologetic argumentation cannot logically compel faith, since religious commitment retains the dimension of freedom and engages the whole person. The most persuasive case for Christianity therefore consists in a plurality of coherent and well-founded reasons pointing to the value of the Christian way of life.