Freedom and identity. The contribution of Ctirad V. Pospišil to the trinitarian ontology of persons in society

The main aim of the paper is to present a connection of Trinitarian theology and ontology with political theology in the work of the Czech theologian Ctirad V. Pospišil. The topic is analysed in the context of a Trinitarian ontology, an approach to the philosophical theology inspired by the German theologian Klaus Hemmerle, and in the context of modern political theology. The paper argues that the focus of modern tradition of Christian political thinking on the problem of emancipation and liberation of man is increasingly accompanied with the questioning of human identity. It tries to identify both of these constitutive elements in Pospišil’s work and shows that an idea of freedom, which avoids a trap of purely negative form of liberation, and a concept of identity, which avoids aggressive self-determination and cultural intolerance, both find their roots in the Trinitarian transformation and reconfiguration of the mystery of being.