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The article is dedicated to the question of human being's capacity for joy and happiness. In that sense, particular emphasis lays on the Christian notion of joy as beatitude. Through the history of Christian theology and spirituality, beatitude was always connected to the faith and moral life. In that sense, the Christian meaning of happiness and joy as beatitude necessarily imply thematic interweaving of theology and spirituality, of reasonable and virtuous life. Aft er the initial biblical-anthropological refl ection on the subject of joy, the central part of the article is dedicated to the theology of beatitude with the emphasis on Augustine's and Thomas's theological thought. Starting with their philosophical and theological presuppositions for the Christian concept of happiness, and in the light of Christian spirituality and impulses of Pope Francis in Evangelii gaudium, there is the conclusive rethinking of specifi c Christian concept of happiness as beatitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]