Ojciec – źródło i miara. O wartych rozważenia implikacjach poszerzenia perspektywy wychowania
Father – Source and Measure: On the Considerable Implications of Broadening the Perspective of Education

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The object of the text is to reinterpret the relationship between mas-culinity and fatherhood, and between biological and spiritual fatherhood, as well. The aim is toshow what the inclusion of a theological perspective implies and to what consequences it leads.THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main question of the work is formulatedas follows: what is the significance for the understanding of human fatherhood of referring to thefatherhood of God as the model of all fatherhood, understood after Thomas Aquinas. A method ofanalysis of philosophical and theological texts was used and reference was made to the ‘man ex-perience’ as it is understood by K. Wojtyla.THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: Interpreting fatherhood on a purely biological level isinsufficient on a philosophical, theological and popular point of view. Consideration on fatherhoodrequires moving to the plane of values. The resemblance of human fatherhood to divine fatherhoodis analogous, the difference being based, inter alia, on the fact that man is an adventurous being,human love is a response, conjugal love is determined by the body and sex.RESEARCH RESULTS: Spiritual fatherhood gives meaning to and is the measure of biologicalfatherhood. The biological characteristics of masculinity and fatherhood through reference to spir-itual fatherhood deepen man’s maturity and actualise his being as a person. As parents, father andmother fulfil the one goal of creating a community of love in different ways.CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND APPLICABLE VALUE OF RESEARCH:The text is a collection of introductory remarks requiring deepening and further research. Refer-ence to John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and texts on fatherhood may be particularly fruitful.Controversies also need to be addressed: the incommensurability of human and divine fatherhood,the significance of the body and gender for spiritual fatherhood, and the differences and similaritiesbetween fatherhood and motherhood.

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