Dignity of Person in Context of Christian Anthropology

Sa？etak Dignity represents the supreme value of human being and his/her transcendental distinctiveness. Trying to cover the complex idea of dignity as fully as possible, the first part of the article starts from interdisciplinary presentation of dignity through philosophical, theological and bioethical foundation, which encounter certain value aberrations in view of its universality and normativity. Therefore, in the second part, the article points out the necessity of the person’s legal protection as part of inalienable human rights. The final part seeks to integrate the previous two, observing dignity from the perspective of Christian personalistic anthropology, emphasizing that the emergence of human dignity is primarily based on the creation of man in the image of God, founding it on the integral anthropology which observes man in the holistic unity of spirit and body. On this basis, the human dimension of holiness is also derived, which strongly affirms the inviolability of human dignity, with special protective emphases from the perspective of the Church Magisterium