2026-02-20

The concept of faithfulness is very ample and related to fundamental problems of anthropology and theology. Faithfulness is also an essential biblical category. One can speak of being faithful in friendship, in marriage or in one’s attitude to a social or national community. Faithfulness, as Dietrich von Hildebrand writes, is a particular kind of constancy that gives human live an inner cohesion, inner unity, enabling a lasting attachment to truths and values which human beings discover at consecutive stages of their lives and which provide a foundation on which their personalities grow and mature.

To be faithful to oneself is to be faithful to what one discovered along the path of one’s life, recognized “with one’s own eyes,” experienced “palpably” and, later, deeply understood. Faithfulness is a prerequisite for moral and spiritual development. Love, both to other human beings and to God, is impossible without faithfulness. Being faithful enables love to develop, persevere, and be proved in all types of relationships. True faithfulness is a kind of free response given by a human being. Without faithfulness there is no real inner life, culture, art…. Faithfulness precedes a complex of phenomena that are called tradition.

Submission deadline: August 31, 2026
Publication date: December 2026