https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.5921
The article offers an integral approach to the nature of Christian worship from two complementary perspectives: biblical and Thomistic. In the biblical section, the author analyzes John 4:23 and Romans 12:1, presenting worship as a Trinitarian reality: directed to the Father, revealed in Christ, and realized through the Holy Spirit. Worship “in spirit and truth” signifies authentic, grace-rooted worship involving the whole person, reason, will, and affections, leading to a transformation of life. “Reasonable service to God,” in turn, is man’s existential response to salvation, consisting in a conscious, free, and communal self-offering to God. The Thomistic section presents worship through the lens of the virtue of religion, a moral virtue that orders the human relationship with God according to reason and will. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that true acts of worship arise from reason recognizing God as the Supreme Good and from the will’s desire to render due honor. Sensible emotions are secondary and subordinate in this process. The virtue of religion, as rational and free striving toward God, perfectly harmonizes with the biblical concepts of “worship in spirit and truth” and “reasonable service to God.”
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